Load Time Has Grown To Over A Minute

I bought my Mac Book Pro back in July when the Santa Rosa processors were released.
These are my specs:
-2.2GHZ Santa Rosa
-2GB of RAM
-128 Dedicated RAM
-Leopard 10.5.1
-120 GB HD, 47GB Available
Since my purchase the startup speed has slowed to over 1min. It's kind of annoying that my MPB would load in 20 sec when I purchased it and now its time is about 3 to 4 times that.
Does anyone have any ideas to make my startup fast like it once was?
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Try shutting down. Then as you hit the power button, hold the shift key down until you see the 'thinking apple' i.e., the grey apple with the spinner below it. The boot this time will take a while because your Mac is performing routine disk repairs. Once you are booted up, you are in 'safe mode', i.e., no add ons are running. Restart at this time and see if you don't boot quicker. If not, open the utility "Activity Monitor" and see what is running. Sort it by CPU usage. You may have added something running in the background that is hogging cycles and slowing everything down. I hope this is helpful.

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Since my purchase the startup speed has slowed to over 1min. It's kind of annoying that my MPB would load in 20 sec when I purchased it and now its time is about 3 to 4 times that.
Does anyone have any ideas to make my startup fast?

Try shutting down. Then as you hit the power button, hold the shift key down until you see the 'thinking apple' i.e., the grey apple with the spinner below it. The boot this time will take a while because your Mac is performing routine disk repairs. Once you are booted up, you are in 'safe mode', i.e., no add ons are running. Restart at this time and see if you don't boot quicker. If not, open the utility "Activity Monitor" and see what is running. Sort it by CPU usage. You may have added something running in the background that is hogging cycles and slowing everything down. I hope this is helpful.

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