MacBook crashed and Installer Disc 1 will not eject!

Help! My MacBook froze so I shut it off. When I restarted it a flashing question mark was on the blue screen. I put the installer dics 1 in and went through the process, but the disc repair cannot identify the hard drive and the CD will not eject! HELP!

Look at these links:
A dozen ways to eject or unmount a recalcitrant CD or DVD
http://www.osxfaq.com/dailytips/08-2002/08-12.ws
Ejecting media in Mac OS X: Removing 'stuck' CDs/DVDs
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041011075232575
PowerPC-based Macintosh: How to eject a disc when other options don't work
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106752
 Cheers, Tom

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