Any reason for the long sporadic loading times during reboot

Hi guys,
Just wanna find out more abt my experiences of encountering long loading times during a restart (up to 5mins). I do see the apple logo and the spinning wheel and it spins for like 2 mins, moves on the an all blue screen and fixed there for another 1 min and then the loading OS X meter. I suspect that the long loading time could be the cause of new softwares that I've installed or that I didn't reboot for days. Anyone care to share their experience and views on this? Is this normal? I feel that its long because usually restarting only take 1min or so to reach my log in screen.

15 seconds for a restart here ... something's not right with 2-5 minutes.
- If you login as another user does it take as long?
- Have you run Disc Utility and Repaired Permissions lately?
- What about running the Daily and Weekly 'chron' jobs? (OnyX or MacJanitor etc)
- Have you got haxies or similar extras in your StartUp folder?

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