Can't get layers in After Effects

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbuXctVWKqg
I posted a link to show my problem.
Basically I had an EPS file from a designer that had the logo in it. I tried to import these into photoshop to touch up the layers but it always imported as a flat image. (even tried first going to an AI format then to photoshop but still a flat image) So I painfully copied and pasted all the layers from AI to PS and reconstructed the logo. Now I want to take that into AE to animate the logo, but everytime I import it imports it as a flat image (I tell it to import as a compostition not footage and I still get the same result)
What am I doing wrong, on most videos I see of PSD being imported another box pops up after the import for more options on how to handle the composition settings, but I am not getting this.
I've tried with both vextor layers and rasterized layers and I get the same results both times.
I feel like I'm missing something painfully obvious.
Thanks for the help.

I'd go back to Square One in Illustrator. There's nothing that says you can't create as many layers as you need in Illustrator, and move the appropriate paths and whatnot into those newly-created layers.
Make sure you give these new layers names. It helps a lot when you're in AE. Most Illustrator folks I know skip this step, much to their confusion later.
If your brand-new Illustrator document doesn't import properly as a comp, it's not you, it's AE Weirdness. I'd start by doing the easy stuff first: quitting all applications and starting them up again, restarting the machine if that failed, shutting down the machine if restarting failed... you get the idea.
And I know you didn't intend it to be so, but that youtube movie of yours darned near induced motion sickness in me. But you were in a hurry. I understand that.

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