When loading a collection how can I get the attribute value text (and not just the option number) when its a dropdown attribute.

Example:

```
$collection = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/product');
$collection->addAttributeToSelect('color'); // color  is a dropdown attribute

```

When using this code the option id's are displaying for `color` such as: 123, 117 etc. and not the text values (like: red, green etc.)

Usually we iterate through each product and get the text for the attribute but since this is being used in the **Catalog->Manage products** page I'm looking for an alternate solution.