Bizarre - iMac shows cog wheel and Apple Logo, ARD shows desktop

Here's a good one for you. I have two iMacs at home. One of them, a G5 iMac (iSight), had 10.5.1, all the updates, and no external drives or other 3rd party apps to screw things up. Ok, so I did the Apple Software Update to 10.5.2 there and after going through the install process and rebooting it is currently showing me the Apple logo with the cog wheel running. Now here's where the fun starts - on my other iMac that I downloaded the Combo update to and all is running well with 10.5.2 (24" Aluminum), running ARD, I can log into my desktop of the G5 iMac which looked normal (and I started to download the Leopard Graphics update). Then, I walked into the room and did a double-take and saw what I described above, the cog wheel going and the logo - yet on ARD it's the desktop.
Anyone else experience this? Any other admins out there with ARD?
I wouldn't believe it if I didn't see this for myself. I wanted to test both types of updaters to see what I may be getting myself into at work tomorrow with everyone else's machines.

Hi bolisaf,
I'm having that same issue. It's annoying. It's seems to take forever, and unnecessary. When the desktop cames in the dock takes long time to show, sometimes...
Can i ask you how long your boot time is?
As you did not post anythong else, did you manage to work out a solution? Or there is not a solution for this?
Thanks!
Daniel

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