Premiere CC cannot render After Effects files

Windows 8 64-bit, graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (3GB), 32GB RAM, i7 Intel processor
Earlier today I was making changes to a 13 minute film. It has a few After Effects animated stills. Everything was fine until I made some tweaks to the animations in After Effects. BIG MISTAKE. Now the files won't render in Premiere, even though they did last week. The changes were minor. I've tried clearing cache for both Premiere and After Effects, uninstalled and reinstalled both programs. No changes. I tried creating a new timeline and importing the sequence over, but now one of the AE files in the timeline says "Media Offline" even though I've made no changes to it. This ONLY happens with Premiere projects containing these AE files. I tried messing around with other projects, and Premiere works fine. I can edit the animations in After Effects just fine, but Premiere won't render them. It freeze or crashes every time. For some reason, it only started messing up once I edited the AE files this morning and I have no idea why since this is not the first wave of changes I've made to them. Premiere and After Effects are updated, as is my graphics card driver.
Any assistance is appreciated. Thank you.

Thank you both, Jim and Greg, for the help so far. I think I managed to fix it on my own. I was working with 4 After Effects animations at very high resolutions (because the footage had to zoom and pan). I was able to render 3 of them into .avi files, but the 4th was too corrupted. After Effects crashed every time, so I re-created the composition from a new still. That worked, and I rendered that clip into an .avi file as well. After I managed to remove the After Effects file from the Premiere Pro sequence, Premiere stopped crashing. I imported the .avi files and was able to edit and render again. I can only assume Premiere was having too much with the original AE files, either because they were too large, corrupted, or both. Still don't know what went wrong when I edited them Monday morning, but thankfully I was able to work around it.

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