> I have two terrible CD-ROMs and a lot of shady CDs.  Sometimes I'll put
> one in the drive and Linux will fail to read it properly.  Sometimes
> this means I just can't read the disk.  Other times it means that the
> damn drive light stays on and the disk stays mounted and "busy" until I
> reboot the frickin PC.
>

As Ray mentioned earlier, it would be easier to come up with a possible remedy 
if we knew what you were doing. But, here's a something else that might help. 
Try using lsof:

lsof | grep /mnt/cdrom .

lsof will output the program(s) that is(are) using resources on /mnt/cdrom. 
Now simply quit (or kill those programs) and you should be able to unmount 
the cdrom drive.

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