CS4 - Additional File Formats and Effects Installation

We are operating in a networked environment and are experiencing trouble with After Effects 9 (CS4). Frequently AE wants to connect to the Web and download/install additional file formats and effects. The "student user" accounts do not allow this and the process fails. Some AE projects REQUIRE these additional components, so as we encounter this problem we log on as a local administrator and allow the application to update these components.
Is there a way to make these components part of our standard software library, so the next time we re-image a lab everything is in place? These additional components do not seem to be included in the standard Adobe Updater. Or perhaps there are a few directories which just need an adjustment to their NTFS permissions?
I haven't seen anything on the Web about this, nor in these forums. Has anyone else encountered this while in a networked enviornment? Solutions?
Thanks...

Lets assume that the correct (English) serial was entered during installation, and that there were no inconsistencies with language options...etc. At what point do those 3rd party codecs and plug-ins get installed? After first launching the product, or only when an AE project requires additional components?
I just did a fresh install on a new machine and never saw any dialogue box or alert about AE downloading and installing anything "extra". We don't set up any of our systems for multi-lingual use, and I'm quite certain another language was not specified during the install. I'll double check, but it would be useful to know what the trigger is for checking for these additional components, and if I can force it to happen on the machine I'm setting up as my master.
Thanks...
-eb-

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hey, your answer is working,
when developing plugins for AE (i do!) you start/exit it quite often, it
does makes the difference - if you dont believe me just start AE with a
debugger and see how much time it takes to load all of them. Sure one
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sure, your metaphor is quite cool, but i would instead consider scraping
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Am 29.08.2011 19:06, schrieb Mylenium:
>> Is there a way to get rid of the message (without AE attempting to download additional stuff)
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Mylenium
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>> Is there a way to get rid of the message (without AE attempting to download additional stuff)
No. Just let it finish the install. And it's not downloading anything, it's just restoring the default configuration from the installer backup. Why anyone would want to delete the whole effects folder is beyond me, anyway. This is like screwing out the lightbulbs in a room with no windows to conserve electricity on the chance that someone might actually accidentally turn them on... It's just not smart. As long as you don't use them, none of that gets in teh way, so there is no need to remove anything.
Mylenium
>

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Andrey_Dmitriev wrote:
In LabVIEW 2015 the new "fast file format" was introduced:
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