Serious Issues with After Effects CS6 and CC

Wife updated computer to Mavericks and now I can't open AE CS6 at all - I've downloaded all the updates, but am getting message: "After Effects warning: Could not rename the file 'Users/christophersprinkle/Library/Preferences/Adobe/After Effects/11.0/Workspaces.2678.1407352277696161.xml' to 'Workspaces.xml'
There isn't even a file named as the above ...
That warning is followed by "After Effects can't continue: unexpected failure during application startup"
When I try to open the project I'm working on with AE CC, it refuses to open it.
Please help. Am seriously screwed.

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