MacBook boots after 20 min!!

Guys...
Here is the thing. A friend brought me her Macbook Core 2 duo, 1 gb ram and 80gb of HD.
She was having some trouble with the booting and some dude told her that the HD was failing and he tell her for the exchange of the HD for a new one it will cost her like US$200.
BTW: i live in Chile so the price is not that expensive or something
Well, she told him that it was too expensive so she brought the Macbook to me.
It was supposed that the MacBook didn't startup at all... well, i've power on the MB and startup.
It has Leopard (10.5.6) but it was running really slow and according to the specs it should be OK and running smooth as leopard does.
This MB has a preinstalled Tiger 10.4.9 and i thought, maybe this other person has installed a torrent version of Leopard or something and that is causing this problem.
I've used Techtool pro 4.5.3 to check on all hardware including the surface test to check if the HD was actually corrupt or somenthing and everything was perfect.
Then i've used the Apple Hardware Test and both test has passed perfectly.
Ok, so the problem isn't hardware.
I've reinstalled the bundled OS to Tiger and now it takes like 30 minutes to boot, this happend after i've upgraded to 10.4.11 (downloaded the dmg combo update for intel from apple of course), after upgrading the Airport software (utillities and driver).
So, i've started on Verbose (command + V after the startup chime) to see what was happening... this is....
(This is an example because it's too much text :)) (if anyone knows how to get this on a txt, let me know)
Mar 11 22:47:36 launchd: com.apple.syslogd : exited: Terminated
Mar 11 22:47:36 launchd: com.apple.syslogd :respawning too quickly! throttling
Mar 11 22:47:36 launchd: com.apple.syslogd : 9 more failures without living at least 60 seconds will cause job removal
another one....
Mar 11 22:47:37 launchd: com.apple.KernelEventAgent : (same thing as syslogd)
another one...
Mar 11 22:47:37 launchd: com.apple.mDNSResponder : exited with exit code : 255
Mar 11 22:47:37 launchd: com.apple.mDNSResponder : (same thing as syslog)
Previous Shutdown cause: 3
GFX8: family specific matching fails
display : family specific matching fails
Mar 11 22:49:44 SystemStarter[42]: Waiting for application services
and then the same for like 8 minutes.
WTH?!?!?
it finally starts up, but is this going to happen each time i've got OS X updated?
Thanks so much guys and sorry for the long speech heheheh.
Cheers and i hope we can find the solution

BDAqua:
After installing Quicktime 7.6, Safari 3.2.1 and iTunes 8.1 i had to reboot and it took 9:57 minutes and counting (got tired of waiting and shut down the Mac).
I've started on safe mode and it took 3:42 minutes to startup. Fixed the permissions as you said and this is what it fixed:
User differs on ./Users/Shared/SC Info, should be 0, owner is 501
Owner and group corrected on ./Users/Shared/SC Info
Permissions corrected on ./Users/Shared/SC Info
and i've found this on the Trash
A folder named 501.258526639 and contains
annex.db
fonts.db
Local.fcache
System.fcache
qdfams.db
annex_aux
filetoken.db
shall i empty the trash?
I've restarted the computer on normal boot and it took 17:56 and of course i've got tired again. Actually i fell sleep hahahah (it's 2:39 AM now).
I've started on Verbose and it took 1:30, restarted on normal boot and that was a fast boot.... less than a minute.
Any clue?
Thanks for the help BD

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