Whats the best solution to speed up leopard boot times?

hi all. im fed with leopard taking around a minute to fully boot up. It lags on the blue screens for about 15 secs which doesnt help. I do have around 100gb in use on both my mbp and imac's but have only mail and ical as log in items and have cleared the caches as well as doing repair permissions etc. i have nothing on my desktop.
Ive heard that doing an erase and install and manually transferring everything from my external hard drive should help but its so time consuming. if i do it but preserve all the settings instead etc would that help? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Also I have microsoft word student edition which always takes about 10-15 secs to open yet when i try them at the apple store its almost instant and you hardly notice that horrid beach ball? any help here would also be appreciated.
Thanks
Rob

If you updated from 10.4, then try this link.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1545?viewlocale=en_US

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