Vanishing Point to After Effects

photoshop cs3 10.0.1, mac osx 10.5.3, 8 core, 16Gb ram.
I have an image open, pull down to vanishing point, make my grids, and pull down the flyout menu to export, but only see "Render to Photoshop", no "Export to After Effects" or Export to DXF.
anyone know of why this may be? or what i can do to fix it?

don't know:
I just tried it, and all options were available to me including 3DS, AFX and DXF- none of which seem to be supported by Motion2 BTW.

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