I have a very strange problem with BOINC on my laptop. I have no problem starting the manager; however, the core client takes several minutes to respond to connection requests from the manager.

I had been running a 5.4-level client earlier, and it took about three minutes to start. Logs show that the current 5.10.13 version takes more than *nine minutes* between startup and starting any BOINC project. Any idea what's wrong?

Here's a log from the first time I ran 5.10.13, in case it helps:

StartServiceCtrlDispatcher being called.
This may take several seconds.  Please wait.
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Starting BOINC client version 5.10.13 for windows_intelx86
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] log flags: task, file_xfer, sched_ops
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Libraries: libcurl/7.16.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8e zlib/1.2.3
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Executing as a daemon
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Data directory: C:\Program Files\BOINC
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] BOINC is running as a service and as a non-system user.
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] No application graphics will be available.
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Processor: 1 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.50GHz [x86 Family 6 Model 13 Stepping 8]
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Processor features: fpu tsc pae nx sse sse2 mmx
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Memory: 503.37 MB physical, 1.20 GB virtual
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Disk: 33.63 GB total, 2.94 GB free
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Version change (5.4.11 -> 5.10.13)
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [ABC@home] URL: http://abcathome.com/; Computer ID: 4831; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [rosetta@home] URL: http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/; Computer ID: 273160; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [Riesel Sieve Project] URL: http://boinc.rieselsieve.com/; Computer ID: 879; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [Project TANPAKU] URL: http://issofty17.is.noda.tus.ac.jp/; Computer ID: 7435; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [QMC@HOME] URL: http://qah.uni-muenster.de/; Computer ID: 30115; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [PrimeGrid] URL: http://www.primegrid.com/; Computer ID: 32714; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [uFluids] URL: http://www.ufluids.net/; Computer ID: 28192; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [World Community Grid] URL: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/; Computer ID: 70183; location: (none); project prefs: default
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] General prefs: from http://boinc.gorlaeus.net/ (last modified 2006-10-31 08:35:10)
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Host location: work
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] General prefs: using separate prefs for work
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when active to 251.69MB
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Preferences limit memory usage when idle to 453.03MB
2007-07-25 16:12:22 [---] Preferences limit disk usage to 2.47GB
2007-07-25 16:21:47 [---] file projects/boinc.rieselsieve.com/riesel_519.dat.bz2 not found
2007-07-25 16:21:47 [---] Running CPU benchmarks