Fixes BZDNG-344

The fix was obsoleted by 42238717

Closes BZDNG-351

instead of asserting that the builder has been registered,
throw a runtime error stating that the builder is not
known.

Fixes BZDNG-346

newer versions of boost dont' seem to like it...

avoids local_dist_test.cc:110: error: no match for ‘operator!=’ in
‘tol_list_it != std::vector<_Tp, _Alloc>::rend() [with _Tp = Real,
_Alloc = std::allocator<Real>]()’ on g++ 4.0.1

setting the matrix now updates rotation, translation and center
components and thus fixes the GetRot, GetTrans, GetCenter functions

this is getting embarassing

use of abs is dangerous as on some systems this refers to
the C library function abs, which operates on ints and thus
truncates the floating point part of a number.