Animated Necklace Help

I'm more of an After Effects person, but I have, and have used Motion and am hope I can do this...
Ok, I'm at a loss on this one. Help?
I need to animate a necklace with a heart on it, swinging into the frame, swings for a second or two then breaks apart, the heart falls out of the frame and the necklace falls out.
This will all be created with Illustrator parts (the heart, and the little "balls" on the necklace.
I need to "attach" the little balls (actually little gradient circles) to the "path" of the necklace, so that they follow the path as it swings and moves about. Once it breaks (the path will actually be an open path so I can grab a point and "break" the path. As one end of the path falls out, the little balls stay "linked" with the path.
In short, let's say I have a perl necklace come in, swing (path moves around), breaks, both ends fall separately out of frame... all while the "pearls" stay attached to the path.
WOW, I hope that makes sense.
Any ideas?
BTW, I'm also posting this on various After Effects and Flash forums.
Any help would be highly appreciated

Howdy,
Sure thing, just use the replicator. Create a pearl, replicate it, draw the path of the necklace, tell the replicator to use that path and you're done. Well, you'll still need to do the hard part: animating the shape so that the separated necklace segments look convincing as they fall away. Good luck with your project!

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