Takes Several Minutes to Start-up

I rarely shut-down or restart my computer, but the battery was out of juice yesterday and the computer automatically shut-down. When I plugged the G4 in this morning and turned the computer on, it took 12 minutes for the computer to start-up. 3-4 minutes on the grey start-up page with the apple; 5 minutes on a blue screen with a cursor; 3-4 minutes on my desktop loading icons, etc.
Any ideas? The computer is about 4 years old and is near max capacity.

Welcome to the Apple discussions.
When you say your machine is near capacity ... you want to keep at least 10% of your hard drive empty for systems usage. Less than that and the system slows way down.
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You might also run MacJanitor to run the daily/weekly/monthly scripts, which sometimes don't run automatically: http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html. Some have found using a utility like OnyX can help with disk space. OnyX is available from http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html . Note OnyX does the same thing MacJanitor does, plus much more.
You can use Monolingual to delete the languages you know you'll never use from the operating system - depending on choices it can save over 1GB. Choose language options carefully, as you can muck things up if you rush through it: http://monolingual.sourceforge.net/
This FAQ is good reading on maximizing disk space: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

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