Game not precaching selected particles.

[Angry pepper]

Hey, I am near 100% completion of the Jeff Wayne tripod prototype, and I have a working particle laser, well... atleast it works while the particle testing swep is spawned...
Basically, I was browsing through the particle test swep's list of EP2 particles, and I came across the combine ion cannon... and a few other particles, here's my list:

game.AddParticles( "particles/weapon_combine_ion_cannon.pcf" )
game.AddParticles( "particles/advisor_psychic_shield_idle_beams.pcf" )
game.AddParticles( "particles/electrical_arc_01_system.pcf" )

and this is SO fucking ANNOYING because I've tried almost everything I know, only 1 particle spawns (not on the list).
Yes, I have tried:

local particles = {
	"weapon_combine_ion_cannon",
	"advisor_psychic_shield_idle_beams",
	"electrical_arc_01_system",
}

for _,v in in pairs (particles) do 
PrecacheParticleSystem(v)
end

The particles will ONLY appear when the swep is equipped...
Any pointers? Will I have to find the particles (wherever the hell they are) and drag them to a particles folder in the addon destination?