Help! I think my CD/DVD drive is possessed!

My CD/DVD drive (Philips CDD5101) has started opening and closing over and over again, seemingly with a mind of it's own.
The problem is also intermittent. For example, when I logged in this morning it started opening and closing, I restarted and it stopped opening and closing, but the drive did not show up in System Profiler. I restarted again, and it started opening and closing again (after rebooting), but then stopped after a few minutes.
Any ideas?
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It opens once and closes once at boot or it keeps opening and closing multiple times?
If it opens and closes once then you probably don't have a startup disk selected in the startup disk preference pane. Select a startup disk and see if it stops the opening and closing.
If that doesn't work it might actually be possessed and in that case you'll need two priests...an old one and a young one....

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