Deep troubleshooting

Because somewhere, someone will need this information:

If your mac mini has a CD stuck in it that is keeping it from booting (say, a Microsoft keyboard driver CD!!!), you might think to try a couple of things. Resetting the PRAM, resetting the PMU, resetting the SMC, holding the eject button, booting into Open Firmware, etc. But no matter what you do, you're still just stuck at a blank white screen. Not even an apple logo will show up. As a last ditch effort, before you box it back up and hurl it with great vigor from a position of great vigor, you decide to see what booting the it up in Firewire Target disk mode will do (Hold down T after you hear the startup sound).

Behold! Connecting the mini as a target firewire system lets you... EJECT the CD! From the controlling Macintosh.

Project Mac-Mini-Replaces-Tivo commences!