I have precisely the same problem here; older box, AMD Duron 512Mb RAM. The strange thing is, it works fine on my main box which has a P4 processor with 1.5 Gb RAM. Once it does finally startup (which can take about 40 secs and with the same 100% processor usage), it subsequently works fine.
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