After some tuning (this was fun) I managed to get this;
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqwBqx9bptI"]YouTube - Reboot Time[/ame]
This might be cheating but I disabled the logo on the BIOS bootup, it shaved 1-2 seconds. I can't imagine anything I could do to improve on this but after an hour or two of tinkering, this seems to be the best I can do. Maybe if I disabled the gui boot, hmm..
Since I have 11x drives installed it would (theorhetically) be faster if BIOS didn't have to detect all the drives. But I'm not disconnecting all of that heh. I did take the DVD out of the drive and unplug the USB external drive. Otherwise, everything is set to normal. I don't use a pagefile so I'm sure that is a major factor, especially shutting down. Cheers.