CD/DVD Combo drive Reset

My powerbook of 3+ years all of a sudden today decided to not accept any cds/dvds anymore
its like the drive is stuck in eject mode. Its a slot loading 1ghz 12" al powerbook.
Anyone know of a step to take to figure this one out. Ive had apple store look at it but since im beyond my warranty its going to be 300+$ for a repair/replace!!!
pbfixit shows me how to get at the drive, but im wondering if there is some way to "reset" the drive and maybe get it to work again.
thought are appreciated

Is there any other means of resetting a hardware
optical drive??
I'm not confident this will work but it's worth a try, it certainly won't damage your machine. Boot into Open Firmware ("Command + Option + O + F" on startup chime) and run 'reset-nvram' followed by 'reset-all'. Then boot into OS X by typing 'mac-boot'.
If this doesn't work boot into Open Firmware again and run 'eject cd' followed by 'mac-boot'.
You could also try forcing OS X to accept that the drive isn't in use by following the instructions here, however they do assume that a disk is stuck in the drive.
Matt

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