After Effects CS4 and AME CS6

I have AE cs4 and am needing to export to windows media player.  When I choose that option in AE I get a crash error <5188> <ae.blitpipe> <2> rect t:39.000000 l:15.000000 w:1213.000000 h:768.000000
I have the final video as an avi and tried to use AME cs6 to encode it but do not have the option like others have mentioned on here.  Does AE cs4 and AME cs6 not work together?  I'm running windows XP 64 and I am not in a position to purchase Premier and my boss would rather not upgrade my windows or after effects.  I would like to know what my options are.

Todd_Kopriva wrote:
64-bit Windows XP is not a supported operating system for any version of After Effects. That may be part of your problem.
That is unfortunate, maybe I can get my boss to upgrade me.
In the mean time we decided to use WinX for the encoding.  If it were up to me I'd much rather go all Adobe.

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