I can't eject a disk--what to do? URGENT help needed :-)

Hey everyone, I put a CD with photos in my Macbook, of the sort you get if you ask the photo developers' lab to put your images on a CD. I'm trying to eject it but it won't let me. I have tried dragging and dropping the desk top icon to the trash, going to Finder and ejecting via the command on the menu bar, and via the symbol next to the disk name in the finder window, and none worked. I get a message saying 'the disk QSS_CD is in use and could not be ejected. Try quitting applications and try again'
What is this, what am I supposed to do? The worse is I need to go out with my macbook in a few hours and I need to shut it down, and I'm not sure I should even do that with the bloomin' CD inside. any help will be VERY much appreciated, especially if it comes quickly; I've been up the better part of the night trying to finish something, and I need to hit the sack like soon!!
Thanks, sorry for the erratic writing. darn tired yawn

Well it sounds to me like one of the applications you're running is using the CD to import or view the photos on the CD. If you were trying to import all of the photos into your iPhoto library, make sure that the pictures themselves were copied into iPhoto's folder on your macbook, and iPhoto isn't just allowing you to view the photos that are still on the cd.
When all else fails, you can go into applications, utilities, and then activity monitor and select any application you think might be using the cd. I'd start with iPhoto or Preview. And then try to eject the cd, by either pushing eject in any finder window or just pushing the eject button on your keyboard in the upper right hand. Good luck.

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