jfrank,

it sounds to me that it is something specific to your application. you can investigate more and find out exactly where the login process is waisting so much time by profiling the server, save the trace and run it in QA; there you can see the query plan in detail and find out exactly where your app is hanging. from there you can go further and find out more.

xmas

p.s. why I can't see the all thread? i see 6 last postings only.