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I seem to be having a similar problem on an updated install of Feisty, except that my GNOME is never slow to load---it loads with about the same speed as in Edgy.
Here is what happens. If I login normally after booting, all is fine. But say I boot up the computer and leave gdm running for a while. If I do so, there is like a 20% chance that I when I do login, I will get this error ("there was an error starting the gnome settings daemon"). GNOME comes up at a lower screen resolution, and the Ubuntu theme is gone (it uses the default GNOME theme).
Killing X with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace and re-loggin in fixes the problem.
I have also had this same error message come up when I've booted the live CD. But only the first time! All the other times the live CD has booted fine.
It seems strange that this problem should be non-reproducible with a live CD.