for those of us that aren't interested in blathering on in speculation alone: this is the response from e-frontier about the crippled poser7 from their free beta release of the Collada Exporter:-

*Thanks for letting us know! This is a known issue, and we're working to fix it. For the moment there are a couple of things you could try (although we can't guarantee their success.)

1. Copy the following files from the Poser 7 folder into the Poser 7/Runtime/Plugins/ folder:

 - msvcm80.dll
 - mscvcp80.dll
 - msvcr80.dll

2. Download and install the library found at this URL:

 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=200b2fd9-ae1a-4a14-984d-389c36f85647&displaylang=en

Do let us know if you apply these fixes and how they work.
As this is still a fairly early beta version of the export script we welcome this kind of report!

Regards, Colin
Technical Support*