CD Drive won't open; can't eject from Finder.

I'm fairly new to Macs, and I placed a CD-R into my drive which won't load up. The disk image is on the desktop, but when I open it up, my Finder freezes. I've also tried using the keyboard eject button, and dragging the disk image into the trash, but nothing still.
Can anyone help me? I'm probably missing something simple/obvious.

Having foolishly purchased a bluetooth keyboard
[requires OS X loaded and running to be usable,
and Apple didn't ship a standard keyboard along
with it!], I ran into the 'how do I open the
optical drive without a keyboard or os' problem
right away.
The 'physical' method is to slide the silver door
covering the drive down with your fingers, hold
it down, and use a paperclip to eject the tray
as in 'normal' optical drives.
You can also check out command line tools like
disktool or even `diskutil unmount force disk-device'
or 'diskutil eject disk-device'.
Update: just remembered the following links.
http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/02-2002/02-27.ws
http://www.bombich.com/mactips/commands.html

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