Having particles change to a bezier path

Can someone give me an outline of how to take a particle template... (small flowers flying out of a hat), change from flying in the air to all following a bezier path that ends up being a child's cursive name. I have a great particle template spewing little tulips in to the air and they fly around for a few seconds. Now I need a particle to follow a bezier path and have the other particles follow. Once in a line.. like bees following each other, the flowers then draw a path that in turn ends up being a script name. If someone is willing to walk me through this, wonderful. If you need a bribe, I'd be willing to send or wire $20 to you for your time.
Would love to hear from someone soon.
Thank you!
VW

Dunno how you could change to follow a path, but you might add a second particle emitter that drops zero velocity flowers and send it on a motion path that writes out the name similar to:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2683158&#2683158
In that, I was using the particles as a mask, you'd just use the particles...
post back,
Patrick

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