After effects crashing and not responding

After effects is crashing when I try to import my AI file. Its also not responding when illustrator is open. I dont know why. Never had this happen before. Im getting this message also " AE error: could not parse mask shape on clipboard??? Then unable to execute script at line 51?
What should I do?
Should I reinstall? If so how do I do that?

MAC OSX 10.8.2
2.2 GHZ Intel Core i7
16GB
Graphics AMD Radeon HD 6750M 1024 MB
The Ai file has about 25 layers but its not that large. When I look in finder its only 13 mbs but illustrator seemed to be really slow also??
I dont get whats happening. I have spent hours and hours creating this work in illustrator and now I cannot import in AE. Its just says not responding!! What should I do?

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