freshly installed and activated maya 2012 stops during startup

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Hello,
i can't start my freshly installed maya 2012-x64 on my windows 7 (64bit) pc.
i get some error-messages (see below), then the startup stops:

// Error: Could not find attribute named "defaultRenderLayer.precompTemplate" //
// mental ray for Maya 2012 ...
// parsing D:/kBase/Edu-Programme/maya2012 edu/Maya2012/mentalray/include/surfaceSampler.mi
// loading D:/kBase/Edu-Programme/maya2012 edu/Maya2012/mentalray/lib/surfaceSampler.dll
// generating Maya nodes...
// Error: Plug-in, "compositingInterop.mll", was not found on MAYA_PLUG_IN_PATH.
// updateRendererUI; // Error: menu: Object 'mainRenderMenu' not found.
// updateRendererUI;
 Hope you can help me. 

Regards,

Andreas

[david.lau]

Can you reset your Maya preferences?  Just rename the 'prefs" folder in ~Documents\maya\2012* to "prefs-old".

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Thanks for your reply. I did a preferences reset (renamed the folder). But with no change. Same error-messages, and after a new program-start a new pref folder is generated.