broken mesh importer

can anybody confirm this..... my mesh importer seems to be broken in 10.8.1. if connecting a mesh importer to a get component patch..... i do not get structures for verts, normals etc..... the weird thing is if manually import and parse a simple collada file via the xml patch and connect it to a mesh creator then do a get mesh component everything works. so it seems to me the problem is with the importer and not the get component patch. (see patch for example)..... i have tried on two computers and get the same results.