MacBook won't recognize CD or eject it

I inserted a CD into the drive this afternoon and Macbook never recognized the CD. I went through the desktop, displays, harddrive, you name it. It wasn't recognized anywhere. Then, I tried to eject the CD to give it another try. My laptop won't eject the CD. I tried restarting and holding the mouse keypad down and it just makes funny noises like it is attempting to release the CD. Sometimes it won't even recognize when I push eject. I tried the unorthodox credit card method, papers, slips, etc. Nothing is working. Please help!

I had similar problem and I followed the SMC reset procedure, and now it works fine again.
Give the SMC reset procedure a try:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319

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