I believe I have found the offender in this issue: ZoneAlarm.
I had already tried to turn it off, but since I have seen some strange
behaviour with ZoneAlarm before I now tried uninstalling it altogether.
That seem to have solved the issue.
I'm sorry for wasting your time, especially now that I
I realize you've solved your problem, but I thought I'd share a
similar slow-startup problem that we ran across that I would have
suggested had I looked at the thread earlier. Adding here so that it
makes it into the archives.
One of our apps allowed users to upload files. These files were
