Premiere, linked Afer Effects mask file wrong color, color spaces - management?

This is the kind of question to which there is just no video or tutorial, the most maddening kind of question.

In Premiere I masked out a subject by working with a linked After Effects file. The rotobrush mask did a great job but when I "freeze" the clip and bring it back to Premiere it is totally the wrong color. And I spent 2 hours using evey color correction scheme known to man with no good results. So I've now spent 6 hours going through color management tutorials and videos and articles, all to no avail. When I can actually find matching profiles on files they still don't match color.  There are so many damn hidden places to adjust color and profiles and working spaces and god knows how many more color things there are that adjust color in these programs. Crazy frustrating.

I really want to get more into After Effects but I'm at the point now where I have to write off the software as useless because everything that comes out of there is such horrible color.

Any help would be appreciated.