First things first: Have you checked the error log? See if there are any errors/warnings logged during boot and login. It should be on by default but if for some reason it's not - turn it on and reboot. See what it has to say.

Good thought, although I've checked and I can't seem to find any error log, so I'm not sure where to look.  Also another thing is that aver it finally loads it works fine, except the fact that it says that my anti-virus program and firewall aren't working, even though they are working perfectly.

It's under Start menu => Administrative Tools => Event Viewer. Several of them there. Or should be anyway. From your description it's proibably Security (network) or even Hardware Event logs but could be others too.

 says that my account is continuously being logged on and logged off, although i see no difference.  There are also "Special Log on" notifications that seem to be listed around when i logged on, because i realize that the problem is not really the boot up, but the logon.

Yea I found it, although the only thing listed that had to do with Log on and start up were about 50 "audit success- account successfully logged on and off" listed from the moment it logged on to the present time.  about 100 alerts for one login, and if I say so myself, it was not successful.