Weird startup with Mac Book Pro

Have had a new Mac Book Pro since March, 2008. Worked fine until this evening. When I started it up, it showed the icon of a hard drive and nothing else for a bit. I clicked and it continued with the installation. I don't recall having seen that before on installation. I have OS 10.5.4, 2.4 GHz and keep other software updates current (nothing other than a word processor is extra than what came on the machine). That concerned me so I ran disk utilities - it took forever to even begin to go through the procedure. Mail also seemed to get hung up and I wasn't even able to force quit. Eventually, it seemed to "catch up" and mail worked fine. This concerns me - I couldn't find a similar problem
Thanks for any suggestions you can offer.
Pat

When I started it up, it showed the icon of a hard drive and nothing else for a bit. I clicked and it continued with the installation.
Do you mean you had run an update and it restarted to finish installing the update? Or do you mean that it didn't want to boot up until you selected the drive? If the latter, it could be that it simply lost the startup drive preference. Go to System Preferences->Startup Disk and make sure your regular boot drive is selected.
And yes, running repair permissions takes a LONG time to check the database until it finally starts actually doing the repairs, especially compared to the way things worked in Tiger. As long as it actually finished you should be fine.
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