Disc stuck in drive, holding down mouse button doesn't work!

My G4 is very ill, and there is a DVD stuck in the drive. Normally, I would hold down the mouse button while restarting, but my startup sequence is quitting before the G4 reboots. How can I manually remove the disc, so that I can run some diagnostics off of a startup disc?

Push harder.
If that doesn’t work, look at these links:
Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing 'stuck' CDs/DVDs http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041011075232575
PowerPC-based Macintosh: How to eject a disc when other options don't work
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106752
 Cheers, Tom

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