Spontaneously opening Combo Drive

I have a 14" iBook, 800Mhz G3, with a Combo Drive (DVD-ROM, CD-RW). In the past three months, under both OS X (10.3.9) and OS 9.2.2, my CD-tray has popped open spontaneously a least a few times a week. It only does this when empty, and the behavior is exactly the same as if I've pressed the F12 eject key. It's kind of comical. I'll be typing along, and all over a sudden I'll here the little buzzing sound, and then click the drive will open. I just reach up and push it back in and it closes normally. I'm 100%, absolutely certain that I am not accidentally pressing F12 (I know you were thinking it...). Anyone else experienced this problem on any tray loaders?
I do have one theory, but I know don't know enough about hardware to validate it. For humor's sake, I'll tell you the story. 11 months into my iBook's life (it's now approaching the ripe old age of 4 years) it developed the now infamous iBook video problem. Apple kept it for three weeks, replacing the logic board (I could have done it in 3 hours, but let's not go there). Since it came back to me, it's obvious there is a screw rolling around inside the iBook. You can hear it when the computer is tipped one way or another. I know I should have sent it right back to Apple demanding that it be fixed at once, but the computer was finally functioning properly, and it didn't seem worth another 3 weeks without it. My theory is that somewhere, there must be an electronic switch that initiates the "open CD tray" process, and that the screw is shorting that and tripping the process from time to time.

Man, you're right. You should have sent it back immediately. What if the screw shorted out the logic board instead of just tripping the optical drive eject mechanism?
Water under the bridge. I'd call them and explain. They may have a hard time not laughing at you for asking for the repair at this late stage of the game, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. It won't hurt to ask.

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