Troubleshooting startup problems in OSX SL

Hi, last week I've bought a new MBP 15" and I've played a lot with it... yesterday evening I've powered-on the MBP and it got stuck on the spinning disk without showing the login window... I've restarted with Shift and I've been able to enter into OSX SL in safe mode and then I've repaired files' permissions.. I've rebooted in "normal" mode and everything worked fine.. I've tried rebooted it twice and there were no problems..
Then, this morning I've powered-on the MBP again and the same problem happened... again, I've rebooted in safe mode, repaired permissions (there were no problems this time, while the first time it repaired a lot of files) and then it rebooted without problems... I've rebooted another time in safe-mode and again it got stuck on the spinning disc, before the login window... I've restarted again in safe-mode, I've removed the Vodafone 3G USB dongle network drivers and interfaces (which showed some errors in /var/log/system.log) and rebooted in normal mode... This time, it booted correctly..
My question is "how should I proceed to understand why OSX SL gets stuck before the login screen?"
BTW, I've run the quick Apple hardware tests (Alt+F2 at boot) and it detected no hardware problems.

Hello s:
All the log files may be viewed by opening the Console application. Many are helpful on occasion. You can also look at system activity by opening the Activity Monitor application. I would not waste time staring at them unless you are experiencing problems.
VPN, by the way, is not a +"low level"+ application in my world! Neither is the Vodaphone thingy.
Barry

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