Ok, I'm going to come clean on this, since you guys have been patient enough to wait while I have been begging Death to just go ahead and take me (translation: I've been dreadfully ill the past few days).
Gnosis, you're about there. I
could, in fact, achieve the look I wanted by adjusting the motion blur to 90 degrees on that. But the truth is.......
I cheated. Like a big dawg.
If you use photoshop, go to the
Adobe Studio Exchange. Create an account. From there you can download styles, plug-ins and actions (plus loads more) created by photoshop users and posted for anyone to download and use. Or create and post your own. The one I used for this sig was the T-3 titanium styles, adjusted to what I wanted. These things are a real time saver.