Blue Screen Start Up Delay

[BurghFan]

Lately my Cable ISP has been having some serious problems, which have resulted in having to reboot my Mac. After several reboots it is now taking several minutes for my Mac to reboot, it will hang at the "blue" screen with the spinning rainbow of death for 3-4 minutes prior to the login screen.

Anyone else see this? Could it be the problem with the wide area network is causing this? Or is it something simple like needing a new internal battery?

System effected a DP/450 1024 G Ram, 2 HD a 80 Gig and a 40 Gig OS X 10.1.2

[Novajo]

Reboot holding Command-V (or "Apple key"-V). Very often, you will get a message that will inform you of what is going wrong (network timeout, disk scan, etc...).

[BurghFan]

Additional information, this problem also exists when logging in and out.

I will try the verbose boot to see if anything shows up, thank you.:)