iMac G5 tray won't eject

I have a first generation iMac G5 (the one with the rounded base)
which has been working perfectly until now. I inserted a burned dvd in
the drive and a) it was unreadable, and b) the tray will not eject
now! Since inserting the disk, a small icon (the "eject" icon) now
appears in the upper-right of the screen, which displays an "Eject
combo drive" message when clicked on. When I scroll to it, the
computer just clocks and clocks (with the multi-colored "pinwheel"
pattern spinning) but never does eject the disk. I've tried
restarting, and zapping the P-RAM, but that didn't work.

Any ideas?

It¹s G4, and have you tried holding down the mouse button when you
restart?

In article <90c2efef.0411160038.6e5beca8.TakeThisOut@posting.google.com>, SeeJay
<cjladd2002.TakeThisOut@yahoo.com> wrote:

 > I have a first generation iMac G5 (the one with the rounded base)
 > which has been working perfectly until now. I inserted a burned dvd in
 > the drive and a) it was unreadable, and b) the tray will not eject
 > now! Since inserting the disk, a small icon (the "eject" icon) now
 > appears in the upper-right of the screen, which displays an "Eject
 > combo drive" message when clicked on. When I scroll to it, the
 > computer just clocks and clocks (with the multi-colored "pinwheel"
 > pattern spinning) but never does eject the disk. I've tried
 > restarting, and zapping the P-RAM, but that didn't work.
 >
 > Any ideas?<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->