CD Jammed Inside MacBook HELP!!!

I put in a CD into my macbook to add it into iTunes, it made a loud buzzing noise, wouldn't recognize the CD, so I ejected it.. it made a loud click noise and now it's stuck inside the CD Drive!! Does anyone know how to get it out? PLEASE HELP!

If you cant eject the CD using the above method, but you are able to boot into the OS. open up terminal and type in the following command, this will force a software eject of the disk.
DRUTIL eject
if you have more than one optical drive attached to the system, type
DRUTIL List
this will list all the optical drives attached to the system, then just use the eject command as above but put the drive number at the end of the command, (eg: drutil eject 1)
more info can be found here
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/drutil.1 .html

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