DVD eject problems recurring

I have problems ejecting a DVD about 1 in 4 or 1 in 5 times I play one and I wondered if this was common to all iMacs or a problem with the Core Duo or OS X?
It happens with all types, self burned and retail so I don't think it's linked to a single type of disc. If it's uncommon I guess it'll need a service.
Just woke my iMac from sleep and realised it slept with a kids DVD inserted and paused. Again couldn't eject the DVD but could both stop the DVD and close its window and start playing again - now here's the odd thing it isn't showing as mounted on the deskop.
Maybe this is an OS X problem rather than the drive?

Yes! Thx God it's up and runing again! I have read this ( http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=455830&tstart=0 ) post and tryed to just have pacience and wait in front of a white screen for 10 min or so and at a certain moment it just started up! Pressed the eject button and the cd came finally out!
This is the magic post:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=455830&tstart=0

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