Very Jammed CD/DVD drive

Little hands have seemed to have found their way into possession of a DVD and a chance to destroy my iMac G3, slot loader.
A disc was physically jammed into the slot loading CD/DVD drive, upside down. I'm at a loss as to proceeding, and wanted to know if anybody had a fix that didn't involve me opening up the iMac and waging war with all of the little pieces. If there's no solution like that, could somebody recommend a good step-by-step guide to disassembling my iMac, removing the disc drive/disc, then putting it all back together?
Thanks in advance,
David
iMac G3   Mac OS X (10.3.9)   Slot loading

David;
Trying to figure out if there's a more "contemporary" replacement for the slot loading CDRW in the G3/iMac myself: Mine seems to be experiencing difficulty "swallowing" disks, and subsequenty reading them... and spitting them out again. Looking for perhaps a DVD/CD burner of some sort..
That said, here's a link from MacWorld with an illustrate access process to remove that drive (move considerably down the page to find it)...
http://www.macworld.com/2001/10/bc/howtoimac/
Cheers!
Steve (Citiboy)
G4/933 Quicksilver (2002), iMac G3/700 Snow Mac OS X (10.4.8)
G4/933 Quicksilver (2002), iMac G3/700 Snow   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

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