lilypond stalls on windows every time

[dave k]

2.8.0 on Windows XP SP2 
        
Running Lilypond always hangs before it starts compiling, every 
single time. I ran --verbose and this is where it stalls: 
        
Initializing FontConfig...
Rebuilding FontConfig cache C:\Documents and Settings\do/.fonts.cache-1.
this may take a while...
adding font directory:
C:/Programs/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/otf/
adding font directory:
C:/Programs/LilyPond/usr/share/lilypond//current/fonts/type1/
Building font database.

It does this every single time. When I check C:\Documents and 
Settings\user\, I have a blank .fonts.cache-1 file. When I delete it and run
Lilypond it comes back, but it is always a blank file. And Lilypond always 
takes 30 seconds creating this file before compiling. 
        
This is very very annoying.