Startup takes forever...

I just installed Leopard and transferred my data from Tiger. Just as with Tiger, Leopard is taking 2 min to fully start up. I deleted my PRAM and NDRAM and still nothing. Somebody told me to once again do a erase and install this time not doing the transfer, but at this point I have spent forever getting the computer customized and already added in many more applications. Is there anyway that I can find out if I have something attached to my user profile or something that is making it take so long? Right now it is 40 sec of a black screen, 50 sec of the grey screen with the apple logo, then after I enter in my password for my username another 30 seconds. Please help.

Sudden Stealth wrote:
I opened up terminal and typed dmesg, but nothing happened. What is the correct command exactly?
Hmmm, it seems that one now needs admin privs to run dmesg, I think I ran it before as a normal user.
You need to run the following command:
sudo dmesg
(you will be prompted for your admin password and then it will run.)
You will see a long list of startup commands.
It will start like this:
:start []
CSRHIDTransitionDriver::switchToHCIMode legacy
Jettisoning kernel linker.
Resetting IOCatalogue.
GFX0: family specific matching fails
Matching service count = 1
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 2
Matching service count = 2
NVDANV50HAL loaded and registered.
Previous Shutdown Cause: 5
GFX0: family specific matching fails
ath_attach: devid 0x24
Also try the Option-V on boot which should give you essentially the same info.
Also, if it was a hardware issue, what would you think it may be and how would I find out? I am not thinking its the hard drive because it has a delayed response on both the tiger hard drive and leopard hard drive. Could it be the optical drive? It has been making a few sounds randomly every once and awhile.
Not the optical drive unless you are using it. Those few sounds you hear probably indicate a bad HD.
Run DU and repair the drive.
Thanks so far for your help...
Anytime - that's what these boards are for.

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Please read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It’s unlikely to solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
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