DVD won't eject, even though it shows up on the Desktop

Got this iMac just before the intel iMacs came out. Everything has been working fine until now. My brother put an apparently really thin DVD in the drive, its recognized and will play in DVD Player. But when I press the eject button, all I here is it spinning. After that it obviously falls back into the DVD slot and DVD player automatically opens up and starts to play the DVD.
Any ideas?
thanks alot.

*Have you tried any of the following:*
The Eject Key on your keyboard?
The Eject option in Disk Utility?
Launch Disk Utility (Finder>Go>Utilities), select the ‘stuck disc’ in the volume list on the left & then either click the "Eject Button, Press Command+E or choose File>Eject Disk.
*Also check out the following thread:*
Yet Another CD Can't Eject - All posted methods tried

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