AME "cannot open project" ANY project

Hi Gang,

I suddenly have an issue with ME not being able to open any After Effects projects.  I encoded a project earlier today as I normally do by dragging the AE project from MEs browser to the queue, all went fine.

I put my computer to sleep, went out for a bike ride, came home, made edits to two AE projects and saved them as usual.  When I tried to add them to MEs queue as I did a (a different project) a couple of hours earlier dynamic link tried to synch for a few seconds then said it could not open project.  I tried with the other project, same thing.  I tried with the project i had encoded a few hours earlier, same thing.  It couldn't open it.

I resterting PC twice.  same thing

(note: the first time I restarted i got a warning that CoreSync app was stopping my compter from restarting.  I restarted anyway)

I reset MEs preferences, same thing

I checked CC for any updates, there were none.  (both AE and ME are same version and up to date)

I tried exporting from AE to MEs queue, no luck.

I've resorted to rendering directly in AE (which blows)

I'm at a complete loss.  Any suggestions would be gretaly appreciated.

Thanks