Won't eject DVD, won't recognize Superdrive

My son's iBook G4 is refusing to eject a movie DVD from its Superdrive; it has played this DVD repeatedly without problems before. There doesn't seem to be a manual eject hole. Things I've tried that haven't worked: eject button (in normal operation, after sleep, or after loging out); rebooting holding the eject button; rebooting holding the mouse button; iTunes eject; command-shift-1; running "eject cd" from Open Firmware (it responds "can't open the eject device"); running drutil tray eject from Terminal. When I put an eject icon on the menu bar, it reads, "no drives." DVD Player won't run, and reports, "There was an initialization eror. A valid DVD drive could not be found." The System Profiler doesn't list the DVD drive. Neither does Disk Utility. When I run disktool -l, or df, or druttil list (from Terminal), none reports that the DVD drive exists.
Any advice? Thanks very much.
iBook G4   Mac OS X (10.4.7)  

Turns out the Superdrive was dead. Ah, well.

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