Lightroom randomly freezes on startup (Mac)

Hello, I've been using lightroom for the past 6 months or so and just within the last 2 months or so I've noticed random "freezing" on loading lightroom. I recently just switched to a new database so I know that the size of the DB is not an issue. It's odd because I cannot consistently recreate it, sometime it opens quickly like it is supposed to and others it just sits there forever.
I'm currently running lightroom on a MacBook Pro, Leopard Operating system with latest updates installed for both lightroom and Leopard.
Thank you for your help.

Yes, I run weekly backups on the catalogs and optimize them, the one I'm currently using I started on January 1st, so it has maybe 700 photos in it. And no, I haven't added RAM since I got the laptop about a year ago. It's a quirky problem because I can't ever consistently recreate it, I'll run it, it'll fail, run it again, it'll fail, run it again and *pow* its up. Or sometimes I'll just run it the first time and *pow* it's up. It's annoying.

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