When using Collaboration Services console, the publication dialog box, on the right side it states "General Info/Permission/included object/excluded object"
It is the included/excluded objects that do not show anything underneath, and when you try to select them you get the error "[1A8] object required" message.
This error occurs when using IE 7.0
When QCS was released IE 7.0 did not exist and was never tested with this version, IE 7.0 is not supported when using QCS 2.0.2
Install QCS on a machine which has IE 6 installed