My Mac ate my Disk and won't give it back

My iMac accepted my iWork CD but won't recognize it in the drive nor will it eject it.
I've restart and shut down while holding the eject button. What shall I try next? Any suggestions?
Steve

It sounds like the disk is physically "in" but the drive isn't detecting it...
Is the disk still captive of the drive? I think I've read postings on this forum where people have done various methods to rescue the disk out. A quick search might be helpful. (I'm afraid of offering these suggestions though.)
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1. Exclude your TM disk from any anti-virus scanning.
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Done! The next hourly scan was running so I aborted it by unmounting and remounting the external disk. When I remounted, TM appeared to be in a consistent, "happy" state. So I chose "Back Up Now" and the backup ran without apparent problem.
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