How to speed up boot process on old laptop?

I have an old laptop which is being used as offline info-center (kiosk mode), i.e. if someone needs information the laptop is being switched on and off. It's an old HP OmniBook XE3L Laptop with a Celeron 746 MHz, 128 MB Ram, 10 GB HD and a S3 Savage/IX-MV Graphics card.
First I used Mandriva 2007, and the total boot time from switching on the computer until the webpage showed up on Firefox (using KDE) was 1:50 (min:sec). Arch 0.8 with the same configuration boots in 1:25, and with IceWm and Opera it boots in 1:10. The startup is automatic, no passwords are needed.
Is there a way to further shorten the boot time? Especially as my laptop 'hangs' approx. 17 seconds on "Loading UDev events".

Did you disable the services you don't need?
Also try backgrounding some services. This is my daemons array for example:
DAEMONS=(@syslog-ng @network @cpufreqd portmap @fam @hal @avahi-daemon !iptables @alsa !hplip !cups @crond @openntpd)
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I still have the Uevents that keep it up, so...

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