Error message on startup, disc stuck in drive!!!

Okay, long story short, my 17" imac flat panel was stolen, but by miracle, the police recovered it and I got it back. However, scumbag opened it up and messed it up pretty good. I got it back together and fired up, and luckily got my data backed up on an external hard drive. But, I went to update the OS and inserted the DVD, and it told me to restart, but when I did, I'm getting some error messages and nothing else. Can't open the drive, can't restart, or even go back to my old OS, nothing. Some of the words say: "panic, cpu 0, unable to find driver for this platform, powermac 4,5, kernel version, etc. etc.
Is there anyway to bypass this startup, and just power-up the drive to eject so I can remove the DVD?? Seems to power-up and work just fine on the older OS, but now it's stuck. And I don't have an Apple keyboard with the eject button on it. Any thoughts?
Thanks

Hello! Holding down the mouse button at startup will open the drive if it's not mechanically stuck. Tom

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