MacBook Pro wont eject disk

I put one of the disk that comes with your MacBook into the cd rom.  Every time I hit the eject button nothing comes out. The computer makes the noise as if it is trying to come out, however the disk just restarts itself as if I had just placed it in.  Please help!

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following:/usr/bin/drutil eject.
If this fails then try this:
Boot the computer into single-user mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above.
To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.This is Kappy's user tip. He's really good with Macs, so I bet it should work (This is only part of it, since I figure you tried the other ones)

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