M2ts AVCHD suddenly giving unsupported compression error

Hi --
I spent all day yesterday doing a rought cut of some AVCHD footage, closed the project last night and tried to open it this morning and suddenly all my AVCHD footage is "offline." If I try to relink it I get an error message saying the files have an unsupported compression type. If I try to import the files (that read yesterday) into a new project, I get the same error. The (very) odd thing is if I import those same files into After Effects, they're just fine. How can I have blown out a codec on Premiere Pro only and how do I fix it?
I have a fully licensed CS 5.5 Master Collection subscription. Premiere is at 5.5.2 and update tells me it's the latest. From all my looking around I see that there used to be a problem with CS 5 forgetting its codecs were licensed, but that's not supposed to be a problem for CS 5.5. Help! I don't want to have to re-do all that work.

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