Sorry, I haven't upgraded to CS5.5 yet, so I can't open this file. Can you File > Save As > Save a Copy as CS5?
Without having seen your project, let me offer this suggestions: have you set
Particular > Particle > Texture > Time Sampling to one of the looping options?
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