Slow starting slow wake up and freeze

Hi I have almost tried everything.This is what my imac G5 OSX 10.3.9 is doing. When it is shut down for more than 10 to 20 minutes, it will take about 3 or 4 minutes to start. It sits at the gray screen with the apple and then eventually starts. The other thing it does is when I wake it up from sleep mode I have no pointer for about 4 to 5 minutes, after that time it comes back and as soon as I try to do anything I get the spinning wheel. After I restart it after any of these 2 things happen it starts up with no problem.

"I have almost tried everything."
When troubleshooting did you disconnect all devices from your computer except for the keyboard & mouse?
Did you repair permissions?
It would help if you indicate all the troubleshooting solutions you have already tried. This will help in you not getting duplicate suggestions. This will eliminate you responding back "been there done that".
Have you checked out the following Knowledge Base Article?
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301287 My computer stops responding during startup
Or Mac 101 Lesson 1: Computer Crises & the following links:
My Mac stopped responding (aka "crashed" or "froze")
My Mac is acting sluggish
Which model G5 iMac do you have? Please include this info in your My Settings preferences over in the right column.----->
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301724#301724 How to identify your iMac

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0xffffff808760b7d0 : 0xffffff7f888b3d54
0xffffff808760b810 : 0xffffff7f888a8eb7
0xffffff808760b850 : 0xffffff7f886c66ba
0xffffff808760b9a0 : 0xffffff7f886c5a3b
0xffffff808760bab0 : 0xffffff7f88885ed8
0xffffff808760bb60 : 0xffffff7f88886250
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Mar 7 00:11:33 Macintosh kernel[0]: hibernate image major 14, minor 2, blocksize 512, pollers 4
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Mar 7 00:11:33 Macintosh kernel[0]: pages 416482, wire 123371, act 144372, inact 18442, zf 1357, th
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Mar 7 00:11:33 Macintosh kernel[0]: hibernatepage_listsetall found pageCount 287542
Mar 7 00:11:33 Macintosh kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen, mlget_interruptsenabled 0
Mar 7 00:11:33 Macintosh kernel[0]: IOHibernatePollerOpen(0)
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Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: image 680605696, uncompressed 1176862720 (287320), compressed 6
77904016 (57%), sum1 38f1631c, sum2 f43132da
Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: hibernatewriteimage done(0)
Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: sleep
Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: System Wake
Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: USB caused wake event (EHCI)
Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: IOBluetoothHCIController::terminateWL .. done
Mar 7 00:11:34 Macintosh kernel[0]: AirPort: Link Up on en1
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Hi, powderday-
I'm sorry to learn of the strange issues! I have the Nexus too, and I love it. While I have not seen this on my device, I can recommend a few tricks. The basic one is to enable safe mode (http://bit.ly/vW58PM) to see if these issues continue while in the mode. Do you recall an update to the weather widget recently? If this fails, I suggest a hard reset (http://bit.ly/swCYZF) to correct these. Backing up the devices information via Google for your contacts, and a computer for your media files is best! Keep me posted so I can continue to help.
Thank you,
AdamE_VZW
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