Suddenly cannot load half of my after effects compositions

I've been working on a feature for 2 years. Everything was smooth until last week when suddenly premiere could no longer load over half of my after effects comps. There are roughly 100 in the project -- all text effects. Now it gets halfway through and just hangs forever until I finallym an hour or more later, force quit. Not sure what to do. Even importing into AE and then exporting a proproj, doesn't do it. It simply can no longer link to the AE files. Locks up every time. Quad core 2.0, 16 gigs of RAM, macpro.

I would be...
Checking my Backups for viability
Saving a Copy as a New Project iteration.
Exporting all my AEFX Comps as DIs and cutting them into the New Project ie lose the DLinks and replace with DIs.

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