MSN Messenger starting too quickly!!!

As my previous post states, I have just got my new Macpro, and its nice and quick. Infact, the boot up seems to start too quickly. The login, and 'open at login' apps seem to load so soon that the network connection hasn't started yet. I get a 'network diagnosis' messsage that i cancel, and as i try to sign in to MSN again, it works. The internet connection is ADSL via a router wired to left rc45 port when looking from back, and I use static ip internally.
Any ideas? Could it be related to grey screen with horizontal lines that I get on startup? Cheers.

Just reinstalled osx (hang up from pc days where I always resinstalled os) hoping that would cure the problem, but it doesn't. I think the problem is that the WindowServer starts before network startup has complete.
For example:
Jul 19 20:17:20 paul-williams-computer lookupd[110]: lookupd (version 369.6) starting - Thu Jul 19 20:17:20 2007
is after
Jul 19 20:17:07 [53] Server is starting up
Therefore, all apps starting on login (now skype, msn and ichat) all fail to start up. The router is an Orange router connected via cat5, and was available at all times. I have never seen this on the imac G5 + mac mini g4, so could the network card be slightly slower to be 'recognized' by osx?

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