CD works, but will not eject?

I'm experiencing the disc will not eject problem. I burned a CD of photos today, and once it finished I tried to eject. I had this grinding-like noise and the disk would not eject. Once that stopped it would spin up again and I could read the contents of the disk.
I have tried dragging to trash, F12, Disk Utility eject, File Eject, Open Firmware eject cd, repair permissions, and holding mouse down on boot. None will eject and the same grinding sound is there. The disk will then power up and I can read it. Deive sounds normal while reading the disk.
I don't really want to use tweezers, as one post mentioned, and I'm not sure the credit card works either. I tried easing itno the RHS of the drive without success -- did not seem to catch anything. If you go to far you catch the spinning disk.
At this point I'm open to suggestions?
Running iBook G4, 1.42 GHz. 1.5 GB RAM. OS X 10.5.3. This is the first time I've had this happen. CD was burned with Toast as a picture CD.
System profiler shows:
TEAC DV-W28SLA:
Firmware Revision: 2.0H
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipping Drive)
Cache: 1419 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Type: CD-ROM
Blank: No
Erasable: No
Overwritable: No
Appendable: No

I have the same problem, all specs are the same. The dvd is junk, I think our only option is to replace the dvd. Might be a common problem for this model. I hear the grinding when I turn the computer on, does yours do the same?

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