Help troubleshooting slow user login

for the past week i've been having a problem with slower then normal login to my user account. (the top menu bar loads in slices very slowly)
login in safe mode and to another user account is much faster so i can narrow it to something in my start-up items/extensions.
what's the best way to figure out the problem: should i be disabling the login items in my user account control panel or should i be looking for something in the user/library folder?
btw, i repaired disk permission and deleted cache files using first macjanitor (which seemed to hang so i force quit) but then i followed up with onyx.

Jimyyz,
Most times that I've seen this, the problem was caused by a bad cache file in the main Library folder. Look in /Library/Caches for all cache files associated with this account (most of these will have the account's UID appended to the name: "501," 502," "503," etc.). If you don't know the account's UID, check that user's "properties" in Netinfo Manager.
Good luck!
Scott

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