Trouble ejecting

My CD/DVD rom drive has been having problems lately with ejecting. It seems to start having troubles in windows, so I restart in OSX and it does the same thing for a while, but then finally it will eject. After that it's fine as long as I stay in OSX. I went back to windows and used the eject option from the menu and it worked fine. I'm trying to install a game that is spread across 4 discs so that is where the problem originated.
Anyone else having this trouble? Thanks.
firewired

The problem quit by itself. Gotta love when it does that!

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