DVD drive door broken?

It's been an accident waiting to happen. And happen it did, just a few moments ago.
With the DVD drive tray open, I stupidly swivelled in my chair and banged my knee against it. Miraculously, the tray slid back in - but the drive door remained open. Repeatedly opening and closing the tray doesn't fix it so I have to presume some sort of physical damage to the door itself.
DVDs and CDs still play perfectly, but it is obviously not a good idea to use this machine while the drive door is open for fear of disrupting the internal air-flow cooling.
Stupidly, I've never actually studied the drive door mechanism on this Mac Pro so I have no idea how the door behaves on opening or closing, i.e. whether it slides up or down vertically like an elevator, or pivots up or down on a horizontal hinge to lie flat while the tray opens. And I've never installed a second drive in this machine so I've nothing to compare it with.
Looking at the front of the machine now, the door appears to have slid down vertically directly below the drive opening, out of the way of the tray, its upper edge parallel with the bottom lip of the opening.
Can anyone please offer guidance or advice on this?

You are welcome, Dave.
Here a couple of articles related to installing optical drives ("superdrive"; note that many DVD rewriters would be called "superdrive" if shipped with your Mac):
http://www.macworld.com/article/52289/2006/08/macprofaq.html
http://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/index.cfm?page=removedrivedoor.html
http://safemanuals.com/user-guide-instructions-owner-manual/APPLE/MAC%20PRO%20OP TICAL%20DRIVE%20DIY%20REPLACEMENT%20INSTRUCTIONS-_E
Hope you can sort it.
Let me know.

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