Mini won't start + CD won't eject

My fathers Mac Mini (old, not intel version) isn't starting up, only flashing a question mark. We have tried a lot of normal trouble shooting steps but nothing helps. Just a week ago or so it functioned perfectly (as far as I know). It's not connected to the internet, so no virus, malware or any strange software can disturb it.
Start up with system-CD and pressing C, but this didn't help, only resulted in the CD now being stuck. It won't come out!
Started up holding the mouse button - nothing. (Also tested this with a genuin apple mouse connected directly to the mini - no cd popping out.)
Started up pressing alt/option, there are two arrows on the screen but no system to choose from.
started up pressing command s (for single user mode) - nothing.
started up pressing command d (for hardware test on the CD stuck inside) - nothing.
started up with command - option - shift - delete = nothing.
Resetting PRAM and later on resetting PMU - nothing.
But when I tried command - option - O - F, Open firmware - that succeded!
I wrote "eject cd", but after a while I got the answer "can't OPEN the EJECT device". I tried some other possible open firmware commands but nothing really helped the problems. (We didn't find any good source for info about what to write in open firmware on a mac.)
Tried starting up holding T (to see if the mini would search for firewire devices) (the screen was supposed to show a firewire logo or something) but nothing happened.
I think I now have told you most everything we tried. Many of the experiments above resulted in the flashing question mark, but sometimes we just tried again...all the waiting was quite a bit boooring...:-)
The screen works, the keyboard works, the mouse works. The mini doesn't work and there's a CD stuck inside. Any help or useful suggestions are very welcome. My father will check tomorrow if there is any warranty left so I won't open the mini up myself (rather not at all, I think, it's not as easy as opening a Mac Pro...:-).
MacMini (not intel), 10.3.x   Mac OS X (10.3)  

Does your mini make any sounds indicating it is trying to eject the CD when you hold the button down on a connected USB mouse?
If not, then it likely needs the attention of someone at an Apple store or possibly Mac user group if there's one local to you. More than likely given what you've tried, it'll need opening up and the CD removed manually.
If it does make any sounds that initially suggest it is trying to eject the disk, then it sounds like the slot in the case and the drive itself are slightly misaligned, and that as the CD is starting to eject, it is fouling against the inside of the case, and thus being pulled back in. If that is so, you may find that a thin item like a business card can be inserted in the slot about 1/2 inch, either in upward or downward direction (sometimes necessary to try both in order to determine if the disk is fouling above or below the slot) and used to help guide the CD out.
The fact you can boot into open firmware is a reasonably good sign, but the failure of the optical drive to read an original install disk and the failure to boot from an installed copy of MacOS on the HD, may also indicate serious failure.

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