Macbook slow on startup after installing Leopard

I installed Leopard on release and now everytime I start my mac it takes a lot longer to boot up. Once it gets past the apple screen I then get a plain blue screen for up to about 10 seconds before the wallpaper and all my apps appear. Once thats done its ok.
With Tiger it seemed a lot quicker to boot. Has anyone else noticed this? My macbook is only 5 months old and doesn't have a lot on it either.

hey, i have a macbook 5 months old and i am having the same problem at the startup , so it seems to be normal , check my post http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1206170&tstart=0

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