Ah, No.
No poser involvement.
This is a character that I've modelled in Amapi D7, exported as an obj. 
Then loaded into Carrara, rigged, skinned, domains and  mapped.
Then after posing want to save as an obj with the pose holding.
I do find it odd that the 3ds and dxf exports seems to do this, but not the obj?
Any other idea's why this is not working?
Thanks again,
Mike.

ANGER. IS THE BEAST WITHIN.