Blang DVD won't eject

While I was playing using VMWare Fusion I have inserted a blank DVD in the drive. I have a Macbook 1,3 running Leopard. I guess because playing with Fusion the DVD drive was not mounted either in Mac OS neither in Ubuntu (running inside VMWare Fusion). I cannot eject the DVD anymore. I have tried:
- to press the trackpad button pressed while booting
- reset the PRAM (Command - Option - P - R)
- reset the PMU (remove the power cord and the battery and keep the power button on for 10s)
- I have even tried to boot into single user mode (Command - S) and after performing:
/sbin/mount -uw /
/sbin/SystemStarter
it just hangs and could see the messages:
IOATAController device bocking bus
and the prompt is not returned.
My Macbook boots but it takes a loooong... time to boot now.
The System Profiler shows the DVD drive as being OK.
What should I do to remove the drive? This is a blank DVD, I don't care to damage it, just I want to eject it somehow...
Please help!
Thanks
Codrut

I don't know why, after resetting the PRAM, PMU several times I managed to eject the CD by pressing the trackpad (mouse) button. Now drutil can see the drive:
codrut-popescus-macbook:~ codrutpopescu$ drutil list
Vendor Product Rev Bus SupportLevel
1 MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-857D KBVB ATAPI Apple Shipping
I guess I can close this thread.
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