G5 Quad Sticks its Tongue Out on Startup

Yup, right after the startup chime, the cd drive ejects and stays open. The drive works fine. It doesn't matter if there is media in the drive or not. Anyway, annoying. Anyone have this happen before? I'm not sure where to begin to look for the source of this problem. It's consistent and started a few weeks ago when the machine was only a few days old.

The CD tray is suppose to eject at startup when the mouse button is held down at startup. You could have a sticky mouse button or faulty USB device attached. Try disconnecting any attached USB devices and see if the problem recurs.

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