Eject CD doesn't work!

Hi!
Have had a strange problem concerning audio CD's in iMovie 5.0.2 under Tiger 1.4.2. If I have imported any track on the CD, I can't eject it, neither from iMovie nor Finder or any other app. Only solution is to quit iMovie before ejecting.
Any solution?
/Jont Olof

IMovie HD: Unable to eject audio CD after importing a track in iMovie
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301407

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