Problems ejecting CDs

[Stephen Eglen]

Hi, 

My TiBook (1 Ghz, bought a couple of months ago) occasionly has
problems ejecting CDs that I've burnt on other machines.  (The drive
sounds like it is trying to eject the disc, but after a second or so,
it gives up and it appears on my desktop again.)

I noticed that others on the list have discussed this before:

> I get my finger nails into the edge of the case just below the CD slot and
> pull the case down about 1 mm then the CD will eject
...
> 1) fire up Disk Utility
> 2) mount the CD (select disk and choose Options->Mount)
> 3) if it appears on the desktop, try ejecting it various ways again
...
> Two business cards inserted a short distance in the slot, one above and one
> below the CD, can guide the CD out

The paperclip technique has been mentioned also; is this the same
technique that Apple suggest for imacs at their web site?

  http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58566

The drive seems to work fine at ejecting DVDs that I've been watching,
so could it just be the brand of CD (Fujifilm) that I'm using?

Thanks, 
Stephen