Still out there? 
Distributed rendering is a little tricky to discover in AE. You need to select the "Multi-Machine Settings" preset in the Render Queue. In Render Settings you'll see that Skip existing files has become un-grayed.
You must render to a sequence of images. Mapping your comp's disk to a network drive letter helps out a lot when opening the comp to render on your multiple machines.
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