Blank (background) screen after login

Blank (background) screen after login I'm having a weird issue where if I login as any user (admin, end user, domain admin) onto this one XP workstation, it shows the background screen for quite sometime before explorer actually comes up. I've found that killing the svchost.exe associated with RPC will finally cause windows to come up. If I login to safe mode, it does not have this issue.
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Guest [Entry]

Hmm I would try a system restore back to when it was working okay last and/or a repair installation next. Although, this would probably take the same amount of time, if not more, than to re-ghost it.

Guest [Entry]

If you have network drive mappings check to see that all of the shares that they are mapping to a) exist and b) are reachable. If not, try disconnecting the bad ones and see if the problem goes away.