esd vs. disk eject

I have been using grip for nearly a year now with generally good 
results. However, during this time I have been having recurring problems 
with not being able to eject disks from my CD and DVD drives while or 
after using grip, both earlier under FC3 and now under FC4. On the 
command line I see:

$ eject
eject: unable to eject, last error: Invalid argument

Nor does it work as root. Not even the drive eject button works, only a 
straightened paperclip.

After endless frustration, I finally determined with lsof that something 
called esd (Enlightened Sound Daemon) had opened a file on /dev/hda. 
Once I killed esd, I could eject the disk at the prompt. As far as I can 
tell, Grip is launching esd or influencing it somehow and it doesn't 
always shut down or exit properly. Can grip be configured or otherwise 
modified so that esd doesn't maintain such a tenacious hold of disks 
when grip is done with them?

Thanks for a fine program.










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