Startup services order and antivirus software

We've recently deployed 11.1.1.1 as well and also found in addition to the service startup order, the antivirus (I believe we are using Officescan) played a large part in the startup time as it took much longer for each service to startup as it would have to pass through the files before proceeding so a service would literally take up to 5mins to startup each one. So the server admin set the antivirus to avoid any directories and files pertaining to 11x or used by it.

Perhaps try disabling your antivirus first, then startup your services in the specific order and see if it starts up and syncs quicker.