Welcome screen is gone on startups

I always put the machine to sleep overnight but yesterday morning it was OFF. I hit the start button and the fans go wild but the Mac doesn't start. I force shut it down; I unplug it, and after plugging it in again and waiting a couple of minutes I Start the Mac again. I hear the chime; the grey screen comes on with a question mark very briefly and than recognizes the volume and the apple appears. It takes a long while but finally the blue screen comes up. The blue screen changes tone a couple of times and finally my desktop is visible but without first seeing the Welcome screen with the blue loading bar.
I did permissions; restarted several times and EVEN installed a clean copy of Leopard on an empty HD that I use as scratch. No more welcome screen and the startup process is taking longer...
Any ideas are very welcome!

Nobody had this ever happen? Just a blue screen after the gray screen without the welcome square with the loading bar?

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