Chosen Solution

I press the eject button and the CD remains in the dirve

turn off the computer then turn it back on and as the computer is coming back on hold left click down ps- press the power button then immediatly hold down the click button, don’t wait for anything

if above did not work here’s another thing to try: boot the machine into Open Firmware by doing the following:

  1. restart the machine, and immediately hold down these 4 keys simultaneously: Cmd-Option-O-F (that’s a letter O, not a numeral zero before the F) the machine should boot but show a white screen instead of the normal Mac OS
  2. at the prompt, type: eject cd then press Return this should hopefully eject the disc and show OK on the screen.
  3. at the prompt, type: mac-boot then press Return your machine should boot normally

Check this hint: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?s…

Actually, one more thing, this has worked whenever I’ve had stuck disks, verify the hard disk, and run the drutil -eject shell command at the same time.