Premiere Pro crashes when importing AE comps

EDIT: Found a work around using the Media Browser after posting this and finding someone with the identical problem. (I swear I searched and that post didn't come up) 

Greetings. 

Premiere Pro v14.0

After Effects 17.1.0 (Build 72)

Windows 10 Home

Intel(R) Core i7-8750H

32 GB Ram

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 

So, suddenly I am unable to import AE comps into Premiere Pro. I have tried both importing from the file menu, and dragging the file into the project with the same results. The Import File dialog appears with the progress bar and after a brief moment the window grays out and the program crashes. I am able to import video files and stills into Premiere without issue, so the problem seems to only be with importing Comps. I've uninstalled and reinstalled both programs and double checked my firewall settings to make sure that it's not an issue with connecting to the dynamic link server, but evern with the firewall off it continues to crashe. I'm currently getting around the issue by exporting avi from AE and importing those into Premiere, but I'd really like to have the ability to import the dynamically linked projects. Any Ideas? Please? Help!