My Blackberry won't unmount or eject

When I plug my Blackberry 8310 (curve) into a USB socket on the back of my iMac, I can sync both the Mac and the Blackberry just fine using Mark/Space Missing Sync for Blackberry (including full sync of iCal).
However, I cannot unmount the Blackberry or eject it. The only way to remove it is to unplug it and this upsets the Mac.
Any suggestions?

In case anyone else finds this post researching a similar problem, I finally got to the bottom of what was going wrong. My Missing Sync needed resetting and the very nice people at Mark/Space talked me through how to do this.

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