My Combo drive won't eject & I've tried all the fixes on the support page.

The Beach Boys' "Pet Sounds" is stuck in my Combo drive. It does not show up on my desktop and will not eject.
I've tried:
- holding down the eject button while I start the machine
- holding down the trackpad button while I start the machine
- resetting the PRAM/NVRAM
- resetting the PMU
I've also changed my Prefs to recognize music cds (for some reason it was set to "ignore") and I've tried all of the above fixes with the power cord in AND out.
I've downloaded a support patch from '03 that was supposed to get at this very issue, but the installer tells me I don't need the update, and anyway the support site says that the patch won't install when there's a disk still stuck in the drive (which I'd guess makes it a bit of a useless patch for many people, at least on the first go-round).
I understand from some online forums that there are other ways to get at this - through the Terminal and through Open Firmware - but I haven't found any postings that step you through those solutions, and I'm not skilled enough to figure them out myself.
Can anyone tell me how to deal with this?
Thanks.
12-inch Powerbook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Update:
I found the instructions for the open-firmware fix on the Apple site (not sure why they don't link to this from the other support page. you think you've read everything they have to offer and then there's another solution floating out there on the site).
I tried it, and that did't work either. When I type in "eject cd" I get back the message
can't open EJECT device.
So.... I'm still looking.

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