CD/DVD drive opens on start and restart

This has been a problem ever since I installed 10.3.9 about a year ago.
Every single time I start up or restart the machine the CD drive pops open.
I'm running a 400 MHz PowerPC G4 (grey tower) and I've installed a LaCie CD/DVD drive. The drive was installed long before the upgrade to Panther and it was not a problem in OS 9 nor in 10.1.x.
Aside from being annoying, it means that I can't start from a CD, which I need to do to run things like Diskwarrior.
400 MHz PowerPC G4   Mac OS X (10.3.9)  

Are you using an Apple keyboard and mouse? I just did the firmware update on a 400MHz Sawtooth G4, and the problem you describe started happening to me. I was/am using a non-Apple keyboard and a PS2-USB converter to plug it into the Mac. I just did the 4.2.8 firmware upgrade, and now the drive tray opens on boot/startup. It didn't do that before the firmware upgrade! I hate it when updates/upgrades create more problems than they solve. Anyway, I borrowed a friend's Apple pro keyboard and mouse, and with those plugged in, everything is normal. So if you aren't using an Apple keyboard, you might try plugging one in to see if that fixes the problem.

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