Corrupt Flash CC File

Something crazy happened one day and Flash CC stopped working. Not sure if related, but Creative Cloud wouldn't load either. The installation team helped get Creative Cloud working, so I updated Flash and it finally opened, although glitchy. Playing with the menu, I changed the Workspace settings which finally seemed to kick Flash into working again. Now everything seems okay except...
...the file I was originally working on won't open anymore. It says "An error occurred opening file: ..."
I know this was a known issue with CS6, but I can't find any solutions for saving a CC file. The zipping thing isn't working (neither Explorer nor winRar will open the renamed file). The AppData thing isn't working either (no tmp file in folder). I was about to decompile the swf, but my trial of SoThink ran out, and I paid for the program but my registration won't go through! I contacted their support but no word yet. So anyway, I'm here asking for help on saving this file.. (because really.. in an ideal world, I shouldn't need to buy external programs to salvage it...)...
Thank you for any help!
UPDATE:
Finally got SoThink Decompiler to work (had to turn off firewall). But it creates a .fla with all the code bits as externally loaded files, including a separate file for every every "stop();"
So I'm looking at re-coding the entire game from scratch either way... Unless anyone has any ideas?

Hi there,
Can you check if your PublishSettings.xml within the fla/xfl file (you need to mark the flas as zip/rar and then inspect) has a multiple duplicate publish profile entries and if the size is greater than 100kb?
Also have you update to 13.1.0.217?
You can also check the technote on:
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash/kb/symbols-corrupted-flash-professional-cs6.html
-Sujai

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