CD/DVD drive will not eject disk, it is obstructed, help!

Hi,
I formatted my G4 slot loading ibook today, I then went to eject the installation DVD, the drive makes the sounds as if it is ejecting however no disk appears, I took the whole laptop to pieces and looked at the drive, there appears to be a strip of metal that is on a hinge, this can be moved up and down, I think that it might be this that is causing the problem - the disk ejects so far, hits the bar and returns back into the computer. The disk is read by the computer and I am able to eject it so far as the ejection symbol appears and it sounds like it is trying to eject however it is unable to do so. Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance!!!
Jonathan

Ok I have fixed this myself, after searching for solutions all night and trying many different weird and wacky solutions I found one that worked therefore I thought I would share it to help with anyone else with a similar problem, basically I opened up the firmware window (start up holding - command, option, f, o,) then type "eject cd", the next bit is the most difficult bit whilst the computer is trying to eject rummage about on the left hand side of the cd drive with a credit card like object, (I used a small bit of thick cardboard. I slowed and stop the CD with the card whilst pushing it about after about 2 minutes of this it popped out, after this I used a blank CD to try it again, it got stuck, I repeated this process and it popped out again, after a couple more incidents of it getting stuck I have managed to get 54 ejections in a row without issue. I recommend this solution to anyone as a last resort.

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