After Effects composition is imported into AP without sound

Hi, everyone
I've got a really frustrating problem with AE and AP CS4. Today AE has decided it will no longer render my composition that I spent days building. It's really nothing fancy, but it has lots of .MTS files, as well as some .mp3 ones, and I have just come across a post today saying that I should have converted the .mts before bringing them into AE. The thing is, although it sometimes complained when I was doing some test renders, it would nonetheless give me some stuff. Well, not today - it crashes from the first frames of the comp.
After pulling my hair out, I was hoping I could import the comp into AP and render from there. Up to a point, this works, because it does render and there are no more errors about "after effects error: error (4) reading frame from file (86 :: 2)".
However, my comp does not have any sound... is that meant to be or can Premiere be persuaded to import the sound, too?
Thank you so much for your help in advance because I am literally pulling my hair out...

Thanks for this, Todd. I will give the updates a go (EDIT: it turns out I had all the updates...). I will also convert the .mts and keep my fingers crossed that replacing the .mts with the new files is as easy as you suggest.
Still wondering a bit why Premiere would import an AE comp without sound, though... That is seriously odd in my books...
Thanks for the suggestions anyway - at least now I have something to try.

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