Why does it take over 30minutes for my brand new MacBook Pro to sign me in?

I purchased a macbook pro 2 days ago. I am not familiar with mac's, but the first day it worked fine, but after i shut it down and attempted to start it up again it takes forever. The computer starts up and i enter in my password, but then the screensaver screen just stays on and doesn't actually log me in until about 45minutes later. When it does actually log me into the main screen with the deck, it freezes up if i click on anything. This is a brand new computer, why is this happening?!

This is very unusual. A normally operating Macbook Pro should have you signed in and running in well under 60 seconds from cold boot.
Most likely is that the software installation on you machine has been corrupted. It's not possible to efficiently work through all the possible problems over the forum. The root causes can range from a bad preference file up to a corrupted file system. Because your are a very new user and the problems are so severe, my approach to your situation would be to completely erase your drive and reinstall OSX and your applications from scratch. That way you eliminate nearly all variables.
A more conservative approach would be to fix permissions on the drive and/or repair the drive using disk utility (after booting from the OSX install disc) That MAY fix things, but if things are this bad, AND you are new on the machine and presumably don't have much work saved on it anyway, I'd just start anew.
This is very unusual for a Mac. Typical reliability on my Mac's lets me keep some up and running without reboot for 6 months. Yours is definitely in a bad state.

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