Output Module Template missing - AE CS5

Recently installed After Effects CS5 -- on every startup of the program, I get an error message:
"You have at least one output module template that refers to a missing output plug-in. Please check your Output Module Templates." Accepting this prompt leads to another:
"Adobe After Effects CS5 would like to make changes. Please type your [admin] password to allow this." Which I do, which leads the program to:
"Installing Additional File Formats and Effects" -- which takes up to 6 minutes per startup to finish (a pretty debilitating delay to my overall workflow). Once this installation is complete, and I try to open a project, it says:
"After Effects has installed additional file formats and effects. Would you like to quit After Effects so they are available?" But quitting and restarting AE CS5 only goes back to the start of this whole process over again.
How do I solve this, and get out of the infinite loop? Thanks for any suggestions!

Strange - I understand what you're implying, but the entire CS5 Master Collection was installed directly from an Adobe download with fresh, complete and legitimate serial key from Adobe. Thanks for your response, but I'm not sure that's it. There have been other users with this issue whose solutions had to do with firewall permissions and/or third-party QuickTime plug-ins, neither of which do I have.

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http://help.adobe.com/en_US/aftereffects/cs/using/WS3878526689cb91655866c1103a4f2dff7-79db a.html
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As Mylenium suggested, there are some challenges associated with the fact that there is no 64-bit QuickTime, so we had to create our own 32-bit-to-64-bit QuickTime conversion layer (QT32 Server). QuickTime does work with After Effects CS5, but there are some hiccups in some cases on first use.
If this doesn't help, answer back and we'll help you through.
Oh, this might be useful, too:
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Mac OS X 10.8.4 (Latest Mountain Lion version)
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aerender ERROR: No output module template was found with the given name.
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I am using commandline aerender in OS X terminal to start a render with a basic test scene.
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aerender ERROR: No output module template was found with the given name.
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aerender ERROR: No output module template was found with the given name.
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I've verified this problem and filed a bug. Sorry about the hiccup.
I've trying to pin down why this happens, and while I don't have a full explanation yet I think I've stumbled onto a workaround:
Trash the prefs on the render machine.
Enable the ae_render_only_node.txt file.
Launch AE and then quit. <- This is a critical step. More on this later.
Disable ae_render_only_node.txt file.
Launch AE.
Add your Output Module template.
Quit AE.
Enable the ae_render_only_node.txt file.
After you do this, I highly recommend making a backup copy of the Adobe After Effects 12.0 Prefs-indep-output.txt file. Just in case. I've had the failure reappear.
Now test with aerender and let me know if that works. It has on my machine.
Why does this matter? When you run AE with the ae_render_only_node.txt file enabled, it appears to add a new section to the preferences: "Output Module Preference Section v28-TRIAL". It's the TRIAL part that is important. Without it, AE doesn't seem to be able to keep track of the OM's when in render_only_node mode. And if you disable the ae_render_only_node.txt file, AE has a tendency to destroy the TRIAL section (I'm still tracing why that happens).
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> I can't seem to find any info on where Output Modules are actually stored (apparently they're not anywhere in the User/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/ folder?).
You probably already discovered this. In After Effects CC the OM data is stored in the Adobe After Effects 12.0 Prefs-indep-output.txt file. In older versions of AE, a single pref file such as Adobe After Effects 11.0-x64 Prefs.txt holds all of this data.
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Why are we all of a sudden restricted? Why would such restraints be put on our MPEGS after we've been using them with no problems for years?
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