Brand New Installation of Snow Leopard Takes A Very Long Time To Log In

Hello All
I installed Snow Leopard onto a friends computer this past weekend and I have run into a strange issue. The computer in question is a Black MacBook 2.16 GHz with 2GB of RAM. The first thing I did was to back up the computer to an external hard drive using TimeMachine. Next, I formatted the drive and zeroed out all of the data. I then installed Mac OS X 10.6 onto the computer. During the initial boot process, I restored the applications, home directory, and misc. files from the TimeMachine backup. The first login took an extremely long time to log in. I figured that the Mac was sorting out the newly restored files and home directory and such and this was probably normal. Then I ran all of the software updates to get the machine completely current. When I rebooted, it took a really long time to log in. I thought maybe the machine was sorting out and installing the new updates (even though it has never taken this long on my MacBook. So I started up from the Snow Leopard install CD and ran DiskUtility and repaired the disk and permissions. Upon another reboot (I timed it this time) it, again, took a very long time ... *8.5 minutes!* I'm at my wits end and am thinking about rebuilding the machine again to see if this build is better. Also, as far as I can tell, the System is working perfectly once I get logged in; no spinning beach ball, hangs, kernel panics or what have you. Also, the machine didn't have this issue before I rebuilt it. Has anybody ever heard of this before? If so, is there a nice fix for it?
Thank you all for reading and have a good day.

Check /System/Library/StartupItems & /Library/StartupItems on the Black MacBook. Any items in either folder is not part of the Snow Leopard install & may be causing the slow starts. Also check System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items, especially if the log in screen comes up quickly & most of the delay is after entering the account password. It is normal to see the iTunes Helper app login item, but any others may be causing the delay, especially if they are not fully compatible with Snow Leopard or are apps that require Rosetta to start up before they will run. The same goes for any items n the "Others" section of System Preferences.
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