Can't eject disc

I have a combo drive with a disc stuck in it. It sounds like a hardware problem. I have tried starting with the mouse button down, and also have tried ejecting through I-Tunes and through going into core functions in the library and putting the icon on the top of the desktop. Nothing works. I also can't find a pinhole to manually eject.
Any suggestions?

Well that worked! Guess I'll look into an external drive, as has been discussed in the other--and many--threads on this topic.
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