Both DVD drives open in bootcamp

I'm running bootcamp on a MacPro with dual DVD's. When I use the keyboard to open the top DVD drawer, BOTH of them open, first the top, then the bottom. That's going to make it inconvenient to use the DVD drives separately.
BTW, neither of them close with the keyboard.
Anyone else having this result, and is there a fix?
MacBook Pro 2.0/MacPro 2.66 Mac OS X (10.4.7)

The easiest way to use thew optical drives in WIndows is to put a shortcut to each optical drive on your Windows desktop, then you can right click the shortcut icon and select Eject from the popup menu. Gives you individual control.
You still have to push the trays to get them to close.
Tom N.

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