Can't get Dynamic Link to work cc2018

I have a Premiere project with a lot of compositions linked through After Effects with Dynamic Link.  Premiere took all the compositions offline and whenever I try to relink back to the AE comps it times out with an error message saying "The importer reported a generic error".  I can't figure this out to save my life... Even when I create new projects they won't link from Premiere to AE or vise versa. If I send a Dynamic Link from AE to Premiere I get a message "After Effects: Failed to connect to Adobe Dynamic Link project".  When I also try to send a file to AME to process, AME opens but no projects get loaded in the queue. I've deleted and reinstalled the apps, cleared caches, tested new project files, granted all access through the firewalls.  I'm out of ideas.. Ive searched for the last 2 days online trying to find answers and now I am here asking the community for help.  I previously had the same issue in cc2017 thinking that possibly updating to the newest version of CC would solve the issue as well... nope.  This was all working several days ago, and out of nowhere it just stopped.

As a workaround I'll be exporting the comps through AE and placing them in Premiere..  But hoping to find a fix so I don't have to do this continuously in the future for other projects.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

For what it's worth, here are my system specs:

Using all latest CC apps

AE: Version 15.0.0 Build 180

Premiere: 12.0.0 Build 224

Windows 10 Pro

1950x Threadripper

GTX Titan X Maxwell Version 387.92

64GB Tridentz

X399 ROG Zenith Extreme

960Evo M.2 boot drive

850evo cache ssd