Startup Manager takes 1 minute to display

Hi,
I recently purchased a Mac mini and installed Boot Camp. The partitions are:
120GB MacOSX 10.6.3
32GB WindowsXPSP2 (FAT32)
I set everything up using the Boot Camp Assistant and everything runs without a problem. However, when I turn on the computer and hold down the Option key, the startup manager takes a *full minute* before it is displayed.
I have also noticed that when I boot into WindowsXP, that the startup program BOOTCAMP.EXE also takes a full minute before it shows up in the tray.
I suspect that Boot Camp and the Startup Manager are somehow unhappy with the drive partitioning or are hitting some sort of timeout while looking for other boot devices. I have not found anyone else that has reported this problem. I hope someone with internal Boot Camp and Startup Manager knowledge will be able to provide some useful information.

I completely removed Windows and BootCamp and the problem still exists. So it is actually a Startup Manager problem.
I then disconnected my network cable and tried it again and suddenly the problem was gone. After some quick tests, I discovered what the problem is.
If a live network cable is plugged into the Mac mini, the Startup Manager will make a DHCP request. If after 60 seconds no DHCP response comes, the Startup Manager will give up and then show the startup volumes. This means, if you have a network but the Mac mini does not receive a DHCP response, the Startup Manager will always take 60 seconds before it displays the startup volumes.
There are 2 solutions to this problem:
1. Make sure your network is running a DHCP server and that the DHCP server responds to the Mac mini requests with an IP address.
2. Don't plug a network cable into the Mac mini when starting the Startup Manager if you know no DHCP server will respond.
It is nice that Apple uses the WLAN and integrated Ethernet to try and find all possible startup volumes. But I wish that Apple would make this configurable so that the user can choose to have the Startup Manager never use WLAN and/or never use the integrated Ethernet.

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