Disk tray won't open, with or without a disk in

Hi All,
I believe this is happening since I upgraded Leopard 10.5.5. Basically whenever I have to open the disk tray regardless of the disk status (with a cd/dvd in, without, when the disk is reading or when it's not), I first try with the eject key on the keyboard, but I have to keep it pressed for a lot of time before (not always) the tray opens. Most of the time the key is just unresponsive. Same thing if I try to drag the disk icon to the trash, or try any other methods. Only thing working to far is opening the terminal and using drutil tray eject.
Any clues?

Welcome to Apple Discussions:
It sounds like the key is bad. Leopard did introduce a short delay (actually I think it came in a Tiger update which Leopard continued) so that an accidental tap would not start the eject cycle when someone overshot the delete key, as far as I can figure it out.
You might try this:
Go to the following directory:
System->Library->Core Services->Menu Extras
and double click eject.menu
This will put a small eject button in the top right menu
If this works all the time when ejecting a disk, then I would strongly suspect the keyboard.
You might reset PRAM, but I don't think that would help for a single key.

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