Keyboard Superdrive Eject No Longer Works...

After installation of 10.4.9 update, my superdrive will not operate via the keyboard.
I am able to load the eject button to the menu bar though.
Any help getting this function to work again would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Dan
MacPro/ Xeon 3.0/ 2 Gig Ram/ ATI X-1900 512 Ram Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Many posts on this. It's a feature. hold it down for a second or so. It's to keep clumsy people from tapping eject when they mean * or ???.

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