Turning a series of still photos into an animation in CS5?

I have taken a number of photos of a sporting event using the sport/burst mode on my DSLR. I would like to turn some of the 5-10 shot series of photos into animation(s). I have CS5 but not AfterEffects, etc.
I'm really hoping there is a straight-forward method of doing this. All I use PS for is photo manipulation. Heresy, I know.
Any advice?

I believe in CS5 the video animations was part of the extended version. The standard version did not support animations. It may have been able to do a few things with gif files, but I don't recall.

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