CC 2014.1 error 5 crash on load, how to fix?

Question

I get this every time I try to load after effects:
Configuration error
Please uninstall and reinstall the product.
If this problem still occurs, please contact Adobe technical support for help, and mention the error code shown at the bottom of this screen.
Error: 5
http://www.adobe.com/support/
What you'll need to know:
The issue is only on my iMac 27-inch, Late 2013 3.4 GHz Intel Core i5 8GB 1600 MHz DDR3 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2048 MB running OSX Mavericks 10.9.5
I have a full creative cloud monthly subscription
Every other program I use (Photoshop, Premiere, Media Encoder, Bridge, etc) works just fine
I have removed / refreshed AE preferences by both cmd + alt + shift start and also by deleting directories
preferences folder has both read + write permission for my osx account which is admin
I have UNINSTALLED and reinstalled After Effects 5 or 6 times including using the Creative Cloud gear option next to AE as well as manually via the uninstall app in the program folder.
I have tried installing AE CC (pre 2014) and it does not work either
I have tried removing EVERY plugin from library media core and doing so does not fix the problem.
Mediacore DOES initialize every time I try load after effects,
I can get to the point that After Effects loads, I have just a couple of seconds to make a menu selection and open a dialog such as preferences, in which I have time to change any preference. When I hit okay... I get the error above I posted in the beginning of the post. If I have the preferences dialog box open and do not exit it I will not get the error, but of course I can't use AE when in that dialog box. If I let AE load and just wait and not touch anything... I will get the same error after a few seconds.
After Effects CC 2014 DID WORK on this machine before the CC2014.1 update.
How do I believe this happened?
During the AE CC2014.1 update CC app showed AE frozen at 99% of install for over 30 minutes... I had some other issues and had to shut down the computer...
when booting back up I had no need to run AE but since I had to shutdown at a 99% install I figure I better uninstall and reinstall.
CC had a hard time reinstalling AE, it took a couple of times but eventually it did a full install of AE... A few days later I needed to use AE, then I get this error.
I repeat... AE WORKED before this CC2014.1 update.. and even rolling back to CC2014 or CC no longer works either.
I need help resolving this Adobe Team...
AE works on my macbook pro with the exact same programs, setup, and plugins as the iMac.
I need help fixing this please.
P.S.
every time I reinstall AE, for whatever reason.. it takes nearly 30 minutes and gets hung up at 99% for at least 15 minutes before completing the install... just so you know.. this does not seem normal.. it shouldn't take that long to install.. same situation for uninstalling.. takes forever.
Disk Utility shows HDD is fine btw..
I have THOROUGHLY exhausting all the options I could fine online short of wiping Adobe off the iMAC completely which I am NOT wanting to do ... less the other apps that do work stop working or something crazy like that.

Answer 1

So I used to Clean Tool to completely wipe After Effects,
Then I thought.... screw the cloud app! why not do direct download/manual updating...
So I downloaded AE CC 2014 directly:
http://trials3.adobe.com/AdobeProducts/AEFT/13/osx10-64/AfterEffects_13_LS20.dmg
and I double checked for any individual updates:
Adobe - After Effects : For Macintosh
which the only update I saw was 13.2... seems to be no 13.1
Installing AE 13 took less than 5 minutes with the install file!
Installing the 13.2 patch got really slow starting from 40% installed and then these popped up again in the console:
1/15/15 5:49:48.272 AM mdworker[9939]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 8. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
1/15/15 5:50:38.785 AM mdworker[9892]: zip importer encountered an error (2) scanning "/Applications/Adobe/AdobePatchFiles/{AA97C46A-23AF-4B1A-BF1C-681522994961}.zip".
1/15/15 5:50:40.505 AM mdworker[9939]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 8. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
1/15/15 5:53:09.026 AM mdworker[9976]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 8. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
1/15/15 5:53:09.131 AM mdworker[9976]: CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary on line 8. Parsing will be abandoned. Break on _CFPropertyListMissingSemicolon to debug.
The update reported it successfully installed... I had my doubts..
And SURE ENOUGH! Error 5 crash!
1/15/15 5:54:21.612 AM After Effects[10001]: objc[10001]: Class NSSoundDeleter is implemented in both /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Adobe After Effects CC 2014.app/Contents/Frameworks/dvaui.framework/Versions/A/dvaui and /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Adobe After Effects CC 2014.app/Contents/Frameworks/AfterFXLib.framework/Versions/A/AfterFXLib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
1/15/15 5:54:26.274 AM After Effects[10001]: There was an error parsing the Info.plist for the bundle at URL Contents/Info.plist -- file:///Applications/Adobe%20After%20Effects%20CC%202014/Plug-ins/Effects/Keylight/Keylig htPro.plugin/
The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.
<CFBasicHash 0x6000006771c0 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{type = immutable dict, count = 2,
entries =>
  0 : <CFString 0x7fff702c0e00 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{contents = "NSDebugDescription"} = <CFString 0x600000677200 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{contents = "Found non-key inside <dict> at line 23"}
  1 : <CFString 0x7fff702c33a0 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{contents = "kCFPropertyListOldStyleParsingError"} = Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format." (Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex) UserInfo=0x600000678d80 {NSDebugDescription=Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex}
1/15/15 5:54:30.555 AM After Effects[10001]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x60000007e400
1/15/15 5:54:30.634 AM After Effects[10001]: invalid drawable
1/15/15 5:54:30.647 AM After Effects[10001]: invalid drawable
1/15/15 5:54:30.650 AM After Effects[10001]: invalid drawable
1/15/15 5:54:31.210 AM After Effects[10001]: .sdef warning for argument 'FileType' of command 'save' in suite 'Standard Suite': 'saveable file format' is not a valid type name.
1/15/15 5:54:31.452 AM After Effects[10001]: CFUserNotificationDisplayAlert:  called from main application thread, will block waiting for a response.
1/15/15 5:54:32.771 AM After Effects[10001]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x60800007fdc0
1/15/15 5:54:32.772 AM After Effects[10001]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x60800007fdc0
So then I thought... why not just try the AE 13 straight install without the 13.2 update....
I reused the Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner Tool to remove all traces of AE again.
Here's the console log while installing:
1/15/15 5:57:12.000 AM kernel[0]: hfs: mounted Aftr Efcts CC 2014 on device disk4s2
1/15/15 5:57:12.310 AM mds[43]: (Normal) Volume: volume:0x7f81b10c7e00 ********** Bootstrapped Creating a default store:1 SpotLoc:(null) SpotVerLoc:(null) occlude:0 /Volumes/Aftr Efcts CC 2014
1/15/15 5:57:12.313 AM coreservicesd[76]: SFLEntryBase::ListHasChanged mach_msg returned 10000004d
1/15/15 5:57:13.515 AM DiskImages UI Agent[10060]: *** -[NSMachPort handlePortMessage:]: dropping incoming DO message because the connection is invalid
1/15/15 5:57:18.205 AM CoreServicesUIAgent[10057]: Error: qtn_file_apply_to_path error: Read-only file system
1/15/15 5:57:26.578 AM PDApp[10074]: CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Times Roman" and got font with PostScript name "Times-Roman". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
1/15/15 5:57:26.578 AM PDApp[10074]: CoreText performance note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSuboptimalRequest to debug.
1/15/15 5:57:29.613 AM PDApp[10074]: CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Lucida Grande" and got font with PostScript name "LucidaGrande". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
1/15/15 5:57:43.747 AM launchservicesd[59]: Application App:"Adobe Application Manager" asn:0x0-2da2da pid:10074 refs=7 @ 0x7fb69977b740 tried to be brought forward, but isn't in fPermittedFrontApps ( ( "LSApplication:0x0-0x2db2db pid=10080 "SecurityAgent"")), so denying. : LASSession.cp #1481 SetFrontApplication() q=LSSession 100005/0x186a5 queue
1/15/15 5:57:43.747 AM WindowServer[95]: [cps/setfront] Failed setting the front application to Adobe Application Manager, psn 0x0-0x2da2da, securitySessionID=0x186a5, err=-13066
1/15/15 5:57:43.759 AM authexec[10082]: executing /Users/davidlevy/Applications/Adobe/OOBE/PDApp/DECore/Setup.app/Contents/MacOS/Setup
1/15/15 5:57:55.000 AM kernel[0]: hfs: mounted 101685137D9D81FD on device disk7s2
1/15/15 5:58:06.000 AM kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on 101685137D9D81FD on device disk7s2
1/15/15 5:58:07.000 AM kernel[0]: hfs: mounted 459A876A8DE8CEFD on device disk7s2
1/15/15 5:58:19.000 AM kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on 459A876A8DE8CEFD on device disk7s2
1/15/15 5:59:00.000 AM kernel[0]: hfs: unmount initiated on Aftr Efcts CC 2014 on device disk4s2
1/15/15 5:59:00.506 AM coreservicesd[76]: SFLEntryBase::ListHasChanged mach_msg returned 10000004d
Hopefull... I thought maybe it would finally work....
NOPE!
1/15/15 6:00:09.763 AM After Effects[10190]: objc[10190]: Class NSSoundDeleter is implemented in both /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Adobe After Effects CC 2014.app/Contents/Frameworks/dvaui.framework/Versions/A/dvaui and /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Adobe After Effects CC 2014.app/Contents/Frameworks/AfterFXLib.framework/Versions/A/AfterFXLib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
1/15/15 6:00:10.473 AM PDApp[10194]: CoreText performance note: Client called CTFontCreateWithName() using name "Times Roman" and got font with PostScript name "Times-Roman". For best performance, only use PostScript names when calling this API.
1/15/15 6:00:10.474 AM PDApp[10194]: CoreText performance note: Set a breakpoint on CTFontLogSuboptimalRequest to debug.
1/15/15 6:00:15.352 AM After Effects[10198]: objc[10198]: Class NSSoundDeleter is implemented in both /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Adobe After Effects CC 2014.app/Contents/Frameworks/dvaui.framework/Versions/A/dvaui and /Applications/Adobe After Effects CC 2014/Adobe After Effects CC 2014.app/Contents/Frameworks/AfterFXLib.framework/Versions/A/AfterFXLib. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
1/15/15 6:00:19.918 AM After Effects[10198]: There was an error parsing the Info.plist for the bundle at URL Contents/Info.plist -- file:///Applications/Adobe%20After%20Effects%20CC%202014/Plug-ins/Effects/Keylight/Keylig htPro.plugin/
The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format.
<CFBasicHash 0x618000a6bbc0 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{type = immutable dict, count = 2,
entries =>
  0 : <CFString 0x7fff702c0e00 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{contents = "NSDebugDescription"} = <CFString 0x618000a6b6c0 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{contents = "Found non-key inside <dict> at line 23"}
  1 : <CFString 0x7fff702c33a0 [0x7fff702ddf00]>{contents = "kCFPropertyListOldStyleParsingError"} = Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=3840 "The data couldn’t be read because it isn’t in the correct format." (Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex) UserInfo=0x618000a608c0 {NSDebugDescription=Malformed data byte group at line 1; invalid hex}
1/15/15 6:00:23.942 AM After Effects[10198]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x610000265980
1/15/15 6:00:24.034 AM After Effects[10198]: invalid drawable
1/15/15 6:00:24.051 AM After Effects[10198]: invalid drawable
1/15/15 6:00:24.054 AM After Effects[10198]: invalid drawable
1/15/15 6:00:24.597 AM After Effects[10198]: .sdef warning for argument 'FileType' of command 'save' in suite 'Standard Suite': 'saveable file format' is not a valid type name.
1/15/15 6:00:24.837 AM After Effects[10198]: CFUserNotificationDisplayAlert:  called from main application thread, will block waiting for a response.
1/15/15 6:00:26.392 AM After Effects[10198]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x600000262b40
1/15/15 6:00:26.393 AM After Effects[10198]: -[NSMenu menuID]: unrecognized selector sent to instance 0x600000262b40
Same crap over...and over... and over again.