Optical drive seems to try and eject nothing?

Hey Everyone,
I'm using a MBP 2.4GHz and starting a few days ago my optical drive makes a sound like it does when ejecting a disc at random intervals when there's no disk in there. Not running anything special, just when the computer is sitting there with no programs... Any thoughts?

Same here. After 18 months of use, it just started in the past week or two.
MacBook Pro ...
Nothing in the optical drive. Same noise--as if trying to eject something.
Seemingly random. Lid open or closed. Active use or screensaver or asleep. lots of open apps or nothing but the finder. After multiple reboots.
Doesn;t seem to hurt anything. But is very annoying.
these are the only system updates in the past month:
2008-05-28 14:41:37 -0400: Installed "Mac OS X Update" (10.5.3)
2008-06-12 15:44:31 -0400: Installed "QuickTime" (7.5)
2008-06-13 21:19:36 -0400: Installed "AirPort Utility" (5.3.2)

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