System Preferences Pane "Sharing" is slow

The System Preferences "Sharing" panel of my new (just out of the box) MacMini 1.83Ghz/Core Duo/10.4.8 is very very slow (the spinning ball appears for 30-40 seconds). All other panels open instantaneously.
The console system log says "System Preferences[346] state: SCGetServer Attribute returned 268435460" while the ball is spinning.
On my MacBook Pro (same OS) I don't get this issue, the console log don't write anything when I access "Sharing" panel and all panels are ok.
What happen? Thanks

Solved! I updated pre-bindings with System Optimizer X software and that's all right! Bye!

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