Sharing in compressor 4.1.1

I just do a upgrade and a compete re-install, cleaned out the compressor files in the libary and the plist files on both machines
when I start compressor I get this error
2/15/14 1:42:48.521 PM Compressor[433]: FAILURE: Job com.apple.CompressorHelper-1 is not loaded in launchd.
How do I fix this?

I don't think the network encoding monitor is functional. Othen than the main console I do not get error messages. In the version 3.x the product was stable when the cluster was on an external drive. I use the cpu monitor on the slave computer for my my monitor. That seems to the only reliable monitor.
Most of my work so far has been trying to get the poduct stable and understanding the funciton better. Clustering has been a real pain. It breaks and I have no way to understand why or what.
The console is a pain and I cannot get a real idea of the flow of operations The marker function disapears if I switch screens. In short I have no way to even read compressor errors.
Today, compressor has been solid, I have disabled automatic file sharing and have mounted the slave computer to my thunderbolt attached drive. I had one hang up this morning but when I rebooted the slave, it took off again. Through all this the network encoding monitor tells me nothing.
I think have have had a Mac for about a year, FCPX and compressor have been more of a challange than I though. The major upgrades without a real warning was a suprise.

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