The AppleCare Protection Plan CD that can start up in both Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X may be slow to start the computer.
Symptom
Starting up from the CD takes a long time.
Solution
It is normal for the multi-lingual AppleCare Protection Plan CD to take up to 2 minutes to start up to the language selection dialog on some computers and configurations.
Figure 1 TechTool Deluxe X dialog