MBP 13'' 2.53GHz overall performance

I've just got a new MBP 13'' 2.53GHz and I'm quite disappointed about its performance.
Out of the box, it takes ~90 seconds from turning on to the login screen and another 40 seconds from logging in to get Finder ready to use. There are no applications running at login time. I've read that having 4GB of RAM takes longer to boot but it doesn't feel right when it's more than 2 minutes.
I can live with this boot time but then, for example, starting Safari for the first time takes 15 seconds. And so does any application.
Finder is slow too, it takes up to 10 seconds to show the size of the .app files in the Applications folder. I've never seen the beach ball as often as with this new MBP.
I've already reset the PRAM several times, no improvement.
I've run the Test utility that comes with the Applications Install DVD and found no errors. Boot in verbose mode doesn't show anything weird.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks

I've just returned from the Apple Store, actually it's a Premium Reseller, we don't have Apple stores in Argentina.
Anyway, I left my MPB13 (250GB stock HD) three days ago, today they called me because it was ready. When I get there, they told me that they didn't find anything wrong with it. I've asked to talk to the technician, he said that it's normal to have the beachball from time to time. I explained to him that it's more than that and ran the AJA System Test (http://www.aja.com/products/software/) where you can see that the HD performance drops to almost 0 MB/s when reading a 512MB file. After showing that, he took the laptop again. While I was waiting for him to return, I've run the same test on another MPB13 that they were showing. It didn't have the 1.7 firmware and the performance was a steady ~70MB/s writing and reading. Bottom line, they kept my MPB, they will look more into it and probably change the HD and memory (that's what he said).
So, it's not over but at least they recognized that something is not right. I've also mentioned this thread were they can find more information.
I recommend this AJA System Test, I've run it in several Macs and the performance is always constant not like my MBP13 with EFI 1.7.

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Are Photoshop and OS fully updated?
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