AE6 on OSX 10.6.8 - blank source footage upon import

Hi.
This is driving me mad.
Running AE 6.0 on Macbook Pro OSX 10.6.8.
I am having an issue when importing .mov source footage. The clips play fine elsewhere, but upon import to AE, the thumbnail is blank and when dragged into the timeline the comp shows the clip as blank. No audio either. I do NOT have wireframe enabled, although it does show me the bounding box pixels and center marker of the clip. When I import the same way something like an mpeg or .psd image, they display fine.
They are Apple Intermediate Codec .mov files. I also tries transcoding to ProRes. No change. Same problem. Tried reinstalling QT 7.6.6. I have that version as well as QT 10 installed.
What the hell is going on?

Why do you have two versions of QuickTime installed?
What exact version number of AE CS6?
Also, try this: troubleshooting QuickTime errors with After Effects

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