Opaque Menu Bar At Startup?

I'm seeing an opaque menu bar with the finder not even showing up at all when I start up my MacBook Pro. This is only happening during 40-50% of the the startups. But as soon as I open up an application the menu bar becomes full and solid and I can see all of the options at the top. I have not messed with any settings at all and this has only been happening for about 2 weeks. I have already run the disk utility and everything is ok. Should I be concerned?
Here is a screen capture of what it looks like:
http://yfrog.com/n2screenshotkgp

Ok great! Thanks so much!
I have "Last.fm" and "iTunesHelper" both starting up immediately when I start up my MacBook Pro. But I've removed both of them from the Login Items list. We'll see what happens. I'll report back in a week or so to let you know if it has happened again after removing the login items.
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