Boot/Startup extremely slow after Leopard installation

I installed Leopard last night and have it set up with Time Machine, etc.
I have two fairly major problems with it thus far:
(1) It takes F O R E V E R to boot. I'm talking a factor of 10 times or more longer than it was booting in Tiger. I see the grey screen with the apple logo and spinning circle for a very long stretch. Once it's up, it seems to run at fairly normal speed. But the slow boot is a real nuisance. I removed a couple of startup programs just in case they were the problem, but that doesn't seem to have been the issue.
(2) If my screensaver is on for any length of time, I can't make it go away without forcing a shutdown via the power button. Moving the mouse, hitting the keyboard, etc. just doesn't do anything.
Please help!
(If it matters, I did an upgrade install. If I need to do an erase and install to fix, can I easily get my files, etc. off of Time Machine now that it has run? If so, how?)

I'm finding syslogd the culprit.
using Terminal (type: top -o cpu -R -F -s 2 -n10) I get:
ID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT RSHRD RSIZE VSIZE
*12 syslogd 94.2% 0:48.11 4 37 0 0 0 5064K 595M*
90 SystemUISe 2.0% 0:02.80 5 168 0 0 0 8264K 796M
50 WindowServ 1.1% 0:05.04 3 156 0 0 0 27M 790M
100 Terminal 1.1% 0:01.81 3 100 0 0 0 9004K 802M
121 top 0.7% 0:00.22 1 18 0 0 0 1124K 586M
0 kernel_tas 0.5% 0:03.97 52 2 0 0 0 73M 1106M
34 configd 0.1% 0:03.15 3 163 0 0 0 1948K 587M
92 Finder 0.0% 0:00.98 7 148 0 0 0 8504K 796M
27 fseventsd 0.0% 0:01.12 10 61 0 0 0 924K 591M
21 mds 0.0% 0:00.75 16 210 0 0 0 5880K 685M
syslogd comes and goes. It can last for 5 minutes sometimes and other times max out my PPC mac for 5 seconds.
It completely hangs my machine in ways like choppy finder etc.
I have no custom software installed, it's basically a vanilla install on a PPC 1.5GHz Al. PB
Can others confirm this?

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Today I decided I'd grab all my music and other files over from my PC's external hard drive to put it on my Macbook. I copied all my separate, misc. files like photos and .psd files and text documents first (about 5gb), and then copied my music folder next (70gb or so). After copying exactly 48gb, the computer froze and I got a spinning wheel. I couldn't click the X to stop the transfer and I let it sit for a good 30 minutes spinning away before trying force quit, and Ctrl - Option - Command - Eject to restart. Nothing worked. Eventually I just gave up and held down the power button.
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