3) You have used a cvs CMF version too long ;-) My guess is that 7 minutes on a P233 to login is normal, if you are using Plone that uses PageTemplates, and CMF1.2 that does not have support for delayed cooking.
There is a HUGE difference in startup time/first access time when using CMF cvs with delayed PageTemplates cooking support.
So if I want to use plone I need to use latest CMF CVS-version? I did not know that, the docs said CMF 1.2 was OK, so I took it. I generally prefer not to use CVS versions.
No, Plone will work just fine with CMF1.2. In the upcoming 1.3 however, the cooking of page templates, with plone makes heavy use of, is delayed from startup time to the time when they are accessed the first time. This results in much faster startup times. /Magnus