Thanks for the tips I will try this out and report back.

One other thing I was trying to recreate was the multi color effect from Psycho Fountain but yet retain my effect.  I thought it was a simple matter of using the "Gradient" colors in the shader option and that didnt work.  I like the effect going with my particles but yet would like to have the color cycling but cant figure out how it was achieved in the "Psycho Fountain" Preset.