Mac OS X Tiger Server - SLOW BOOT

Our XServe runs Mac OS X Tiger Server with an external 800 GB RAID 5 setup. The internal Tiger Server OS resides on the XServe's internal 80 GB hard drive.
The server runs fine after the boot up process. However, when restarting the server for maintenance purposes, the server will sit at the gray screen with the spinning gear for 10 - 30 minutes while the internal 80 GB hard drive runs continuously. I was wondering what processes Mac OS X Server is completing during the startup that makes getting to the log in screen take so long?
Booting the XServe in single user mode is very fast. Booting in Safe Mode (shift key) takes a long time also.
Any insight would be appreciated.

The boot sequence is explained here:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/MacOSX/Conce
tual/BPSystemStartup/index.html
I did review this material.
To troubleshoot this, check /var/log/system.log.?
(pick the one for the day of the last restart) and
read the messages and note the times of the messages
to see what was happening when. Feel free to post
sections. If that doesn't provide clues, the next
boot hold down the CMD (Apple) and v keys which will
give you a verbose boot (lot's of messages) the last
couple before the wait would be the most
interesting.
As I get some time, I will run the actions described above and report back the results.
I may have jumped a bit because you were saying that
your 80 GB filesystem was on, is the 800GB filesystem
journalled too?
Both the drive units are journalled for this XServe system.

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