When closed lid, drive tries ejecting cd that isnt there

hi just starting yesterday i noticed when i close the lid on my macbook it tries to eject a cd like every 15 seconds even though there isnt even a cd in the drive. its really annoying and it chews up my battery really quickly.
i repaired and verified disk permissions and it still didnt help. im using 10.5.7 and have never had any issues with my macbook since i got it in january.

I suspect that something is causing a restart on your MacBook when it tries to enter sleep. You can check this by just putting your MacBook into sleep mode without closing the lid. If the MacBook reboots instead of going into sleep then you've isolated this problem.

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My Macbook pro crashes when I close the lid. The front light does not pulse... etc... Same behavior for all the users on the system.
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