Terminal.app VERY SLOW to bring prompt after it launches

Hi,
Has anyone else noticed that, after launching Terminal.app, it takes a very long time to get to a shell prompt? The window opens, blank, and just sits there for like 10-15 seconds until the shell prompt comes up.
What gives? It was definitely not this slow in early Leopard levels or any previous x86 build of OS X..

Well, to be fair, I am a solipsist.. Therefore my problems are everyone's problems..
Anyways, that appears to have done the trick, but it has gotten rid of all my prefs.. I would like to see what pref or update change frobozz'd my preferences plist, since I haven't changed terminal prefs since at least 10.4 (probably earlier, since this Macbook inherited from a Powerbook that had 10.2 initially).. Wouldn't surprise me if it were a font issue... Shall have to inspect the file..

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