Creating hair/string with trapcode particular

hi
currently trying to put together a graphic which includes string gently blowing in the wind from text
i am using trapcode particular to put this together, but am open to suggestion in terms of other software.
the reasoning for using particular as i like the use of gravity and turbulence which could create an effect of string blowing in the wind..a difficulty i am having is creating a line of particles to create the string, i have tried increasing the particles per second...put the dots aren't joining up!
man i hope this makes sense to someone!
AE 7, trapcode particular, 1.5 MAC
oh...have a merry christmas!
cheers
Nate

I've posted a preset at the page below:
http://homepage.mac.com/aaron.s.cobb/FileSharing1.html
It's called "Particular Streamer". I've put an expression on the Particles Per Second to make it easy to set it to multiples of the frame rate (this keeps the particles from jittering). Just put a whole number in there, and the expression will make particular spit out that many particles per frame.

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