Lacie d2 drive not ejecting disc

I have an odd problem with my Lacie d2 drive, when I put in a disc, any type of disc ...
It seems as if the mechanical eject button on the face of the lacie is disabled forcing me to use
my disc utility to eject the mounted disc.
This is a new drive and I'm just not sure if this is something common for externals on Imacs.
I checked out Lacie's website to see if maybe there was a firmware up-date but, all I could see was
"*+This update is compatible with OS X 10.3.9 thru 10.5.2, for both Intel and PPC based Macs+*"
I'm wondering if maybe I should exchange it or not, is anybody else having this same problem ?
Thanks
James

Just to reinforce what inandoutofgrace said, I too, have an older LaCie D2 external optical drive and yes, the eject button on the enclosure does not usually eject the disks as expected. Nor will the eject key on the Mac's keyboard. Whenever I've used that burner, I've had to drag the disk's icon to the trash to get it to eject . . . which it always does when done that way. Other than that, the burner has worked fairly well most of the time. And yes, the descriptions of the updates on the LaCie website are a bit hard to decipher.
One day in the near future I will probably get another external burner because of my experiences with LaCie and it won't be one of theirs. I will most likely go with one from OWC (Other World Computing) which is an online Mac peripheral and RAM vendor. I've used several of their products (RAM and external hard drives) over the years and have never had the slightest issue with any of them. They are all just ticking along. When the time comes to replace the LaCie, I'll just see what they have to offer in the way burners.
Rick

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