ARGH! Me too. Just spent 2 hours on the support site trying to sort this out! I have even restored the daft thing to factory settings! I want to kill it!!

All I want to do is watch a film/listen to a cd but cant!! I've only had the thing 3 weeks! Booo!

There a number of problems affecting DVD eject and the media buttons

http://www.dellcommunity.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&thread.id=288229&view=by_date_ascending&page=3

In all the fiddling around with support did you try shutting down, removing the power lead and Battery for 20 mins an restarting ?

I just purchase the Studio 1735 for my church and we cannot eject the disc from the drive by using the touch buttons at the top or the Fn eject key.  Had to go into exployer and eject from drive properties screen.  Any help yet on your problem?

Hi, check out this link...it appears to be a common problem!

http://en.community.dell.com/forums/p/19251623/19414956.aspx