SWF import to AE suddenly not working. HELP! Urgent!

I have been importing SWF's fine in to AE CS5 then all of a sudden, it seems to have stopped allowing imports.
Existing swf's remain in the project folder but show as missing.
If I try to import a new swf, even into a new project, it is greyed out and there is no file format
I have all the latest updates to AE cs5 (10.0.1) and flash etc it's on OSX 10.6  and it's been working since then - just seemed to have stopped.
I have installed some plugins and scripts but again was all working before and After.
Tried unistalling and reinstalling
Help!? BIg important project. Dealine looms!
Many thanks in advace for any help

"But in the case of After Effects and Flash, all of my Flash geeks have learned not to even think about giving me their SWF files. We work together to figure out how their stuff gets into my stuff and it's usually a movie or a series of vector artwork I can manipulate."
I can't even begin to explain how wrong you are. Flash IS a vector format and it's without doubt the best way to import animations to AE. 
If you are exporting videos from Flash you have lost: built in transparency, Tiny file sizes, and infinite scalability
I know that there have been problems in the past but CS5 flash and AE really does work seemlessly together.
My VERY annoying problem came from an importer script that had an error in it which changed the Adobe importer.
The solution...
   "Yar, hardly ever solves anything on a Macintosh, dunno why people bother with that."
Unistall and reinstall - replacing the broken importer and never using the dodgy script again...

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