Snow Leopard booting 11-12 seconds slower!!!

I did upgrade to a 7200 HD... Yes I received the "GUID" message & had to boot from disk & reformat... The problem, I have got rid of languages I dont need...I've done a pram reset, I've reset permissions & repaired disk...
Could the slower speed be due to the different format cus that will suck, I had startup up times of 16-17 seconds in Leopard...Now its more like 27-28 seconds with Snow Leopard...
THIS *****! ANY IDEAS???

Gizmodo reported slower boot time (look at picture 11)
http://gizmodo.com/5345354/snow-leopard-benchmarks/gallery?selectedImage=1
Is it really that important if you boot in 29, 35 or 45 sec?
I've noticed mine took 85 sec before Tony T1 (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2135474&tstart=0) suggested to go to Startup Disk and select the correct Disk (I have only one disk, only one partition). Now it's around 40-45 sec.
Cheers,
Sharlo

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