How to speed transition using "Curves Steel - Transition" template?

I'm using the "Curves Steel-Transition" template to create a transition and I need to speed it up so that it's a faster "whoosh" effect instead of the more gradual six second effect it is now. But I find that it's not simply a matter of shortening the duration of the motion path, that it's the development of the particle sequence itself that needs to be modified and shortened, and although I've tweaked just about every speed and generation parameter within the Particle Cell and Emitter channels I can't seem to get an overall speed increase of the effect while maintaining the original look and function of the "curves cloud".
How do I speed up a complex effect like this?
iMac G5   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

You could just try using the scrub filter to speed up the playback of the transition...
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