ASP.NET on Windows Server 2008

I have set up a Windows Server 2008 box and have installed VS 2008 and want to
use it as a test development box.  However, on every page that connects to the
database (a separate SQL 2005 database server), the page load time is 10+
seconds.  Yet when I run the same page on my Windows XP box, it takes less than
a second.  I've even disabled the anti-virus and firewall!  I even changed my
connection strings to explicitly set the connection pooling to true and the
range from 10-100 connections and it still runs slow.  Any non-database pages
run as expected; this is just happening to pages that display data from the
database.  Has anyone run into this?  What is the fix?

System Details - followed these instructions:
http://weblogs.asp.net/israelio/archive/2008/02/21/windows-server-2008-as-workst
ation.aspx

Windows 2008 w/o Hyper-V, 32 bit
4 GB RAM
80 GB, 7200 RPM drive
VS 2008 Team Developer Edition

Update: it is database-connection specific.  Any connection to a SQL Server
database takes usually 10 seconds or so to even create.  Has anyone run into
this?  Help! :)

Might check the IIS forums and SQL forums on other sites.

Jeff