Trying to send files to After Effects, keep getting "Importer is reporting a generic error" message?

I googled around for a solution to this but haven't been able to find anything. Basically exactly what I said in the title is what happens: none of my Premiere projects will let me send anything to After Effects, it just keeps setting off a little box that says "Importer is reporting a generic error" anytime I try. This is frustrating, obviously, as the entire purpose of having all these programs together is to send them back and forth and have everything work in harmony.
I'm on a Mac, and running CS6 across all aspects of the softwares, I have the Creative Suite, so all of them are the same version of the software.

Hi DangerusZack,
Can you try what is suggested in this post? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1050730?tstart=0
Thanks,
Kevin

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