Shut Down/Start Up/ Login Slow

Hi Folks,
Over the weekend I installed Leopard. My performance seems to be taking a hit.
It takes over a minute to shutdown, over a minute to start up, and almost a minute to login in.
What gives? My "Guest" account takes 10 seconds to shut down and is much faster starting up and logging in.
I've been through the wringer with Tech Support to no avail.
HELP!
Thanks.

i had slow logins as well on my macbook. first i disabled all "start at login" items in the accounts preference menu. logged out and back in and it was really fast. so then i started enabling the items i had before one at a time. logging out and back in until i found out if one or more items were causing the slow login times.
for my machine it ended up being "Growl" that was causing the slow login. so i just left that unchecked from within the Growl preference pane. now everything is great. the odd thing is that Growl is still loading at login because it works without me having to start it manually. but i don't have it checked in the preference pane or in the list of start up items in accounts.
hope this helps! happy thanksgiving.

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