I received an error "After Effects can't continue; unexpected failure at startup"

to start out, i have already tried repairing permissions, and reinstalling (correctly) AE. I run a Macbook Pro 15" late 2011, and mountain lion. I recently migrated my 500Gb to a new 1Tb internal SATA drive. This is the only application from Adobe that is giving me this error (I have the Production Premium collection). I need help, and any help is welcome!

This is the error that is on the log, and the only log item about AE.
2/6/13 10:10:29.218 AM After Effects[38518]:
GetDYLDEntryPointWithImage(/System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Versions/Current/Ap pKit,_NSCreateAppKitServicesMenu) failed.
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