Sounds good, just wanted to make sure there wasn't some secret way to get the disk out. its burned so i don't care if i damage it. Anyone know if the late model iMacs will boot off a firewire dvd drive?
You may have already solved the problem, but this is what I've found, with the iMac G3 DV/400 slot loader I have: you need two credit/debit cards! You slide one into the slot so that it goes just under the CD (and you can feel when it does this, because you can feel when the card hits the cd and then you can angle it under). Then you slide the second in just above so that it slides in just above the CD. You want both of the cards to go in at least half way, but not so far that you lose them too!
Then what you do is pinch both of the credit cards together very tightly and as close to the slot as possible then use them essentially as a pair of plastic tweezers to drag the CD out. It seems a bit improbable that this will work, but in fact it does, even if it takes a couple of tries. Once the CD is out by a cm or so, you can grab it directly.