It's a little difficult to analyse your problem without knowing exactly what sort of machine, processor, ram, os, and vmware software version you are running, but from a shooting-from-the-hip perspective, I would check that your Host is not conflicting with your Guest. The CD drive is considered a 'removeable device' by vmware and in my experience the 'who has control' is usually determined at the time of booting the virtual machine.
Incidentally, do you have vmware tools installed?
As I said in response to your other question today: I will crank up my Mandrake vm, IIRC it has the 2.6 kernel, and try to re-create your problem. and then post the solution.
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