Long Startup Delay

[B G Scott]

I just installed OO 3.4.1 and the package seems to work well. The only 
problem noted thus far is that the startup process seems to take an 
exceptionally long time. I'm driving a Mac Mini with 2Gb of ram at 2GHz 
and have not experienced long startup delays with any other software. 
The spinning CD of death is active for so long that I originally thought 
the package was hung and did a force-quit.

Long ago, the same problem occurred under MS Windows because they were 
loading _all_ the fonts before opening access to the software instead of 
employing a pay-as-you-go approach. Could you be encountering something 
similar?