Apple pro keyboard eject key

I just got an apple pro keyboard M7803 and pro mouse M5769 for my B&W 400mhz. When I'm running 9.1, I notice the eject key on the keyboard doesn't eject the DVD tray (Pioneer 110D Superdrive). But when I'm running OSX the eject key works just fine. Any ideas?
B&W G3 400mHz   Mac OS 9.1.x  

Hi, conspiracy -
There's a couple of other items that may help with that -
EjectDisk
EjectMenu
I used Eject Menu for a while - it's handy. It not only provides a menu in the main menubar, it also allows the assignment of unique keyboard commands for all removable-media drives, including the Zip drive.
Haven't seen the connection posted before, but you may be experiencing a side effect of a soft conflict between the Apple CD/DVD Driver and the Iomega Driver extensions.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607559&
I disabled the Iomega stuff in Extensions Manager and started using the Iomega Guest utility a few years ago. It works perfectly - even if I forget to activate it before inserting a zip disk.

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