Ok… Duh…. I found it!
Another question when looking at your properties window, the animation that is playing the effect (on the right) displays the effect as a nice, seamless loop (or so it appears) – when actually creating the frames obviously the sequence will hiccup from any frame to the ending frame (when starting over) – any suggestions on how to in essence create a seamless particle loop that from the last frame to the first frame (on the second to infinite loop) appear smooth??
Again thank for your patience and help…