After Effects Starts to Render (very slowly), only 1% of RAM used, then crashes

This is what I have:
Intel 2nd Gen i7 3820 @ 3.6Ghz
High Performance Liquid Cooling solution for the CPU
Full size ASUS X79 motherboard
64GB DDR3 Ram @ 1600Mhz
1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
NVidia GTX560 2GB DDR5 Video Card
850W Power supply
Windows 7 Pro 64 Bit Installed/Updated
I installed the latest After Effects, put in all the upgrades. Then I tried to render a template created and...
1. It begins to render very slowly
2. It shows that only 1% of the 64Gb of RAM is being used
3. It crashes after about 2 minutes
I tried implementing multiprocessor as I have a quad core hyperthreaded to make it essentially an 8 core machine. I looked up all kinds of advice about lowering memory for background apps, changing number of cores to use, on and on. I also tried rendering without multiprocessor. Nothing. I am willing to share my AE project with someone, see if they can render it (to check and see if it is something with the project itself, which I doubt).
I just want this to work because I have been looking forward to working with AE a long time.

hey Nixon,
Memory settings in AE are complete Voodoo... Properly configuring your RAM etc within after effects is a mindbender and very counter intuitve.
You've probably already read over this link, but just in case...
http://blogs.adobe.com/toddkopriva/2010/10/please-try-recommended-memory-settings-for-afte r-effects-cs5-and-give-feedback.html
I find that even when my settings are good, i get a hang or a failed render if I don't purge the ram etc before I start a render.

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