Firewire issues?  Cannot Eject anything firewire..

So.. anything I connect via firewire, cf card in a firewire reader, external firewire hard drives, ipods.. will not eject.. when I try to eject any of these items I get a message saying "The disk ___ is in use and could not be ejected. Try quitting applications and try again" ... I have no applications running and this applies to all my firewire devices.. is it possible the whole firewire system is no good? or possibly a corrupt preference in the system? any thoughts? I have disconnected all devices and tried just one at a time thinking that maybe one particular device was causing the problem but it seems to be system wide..

Okay.. so the cd was actually not hard to eject, I have found if you hit the eject button during startup it will usually spit out the disc and it did.. so I have it out now. Without a disc inserted the eject key on the keyboard will open and close the drawer. But I am still unable to eject any drives, ipod, etc.. and actually.. I needed to install a program for something else and the disk image that was created from the dmg file is now on my desktop and my computer will not allow it to be ejected. Any other thoughts? The computer works fine otherwise with no apparent problems.

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