PS2 DIED - Need Help Finding Repairer

[ED!]

I was actually thinking about you SPED (in a TOTALLY platonic way. . .o_0), while I was digging into my PS2. I took the top off the CD Unit and took the tray out experimenting, and I got the DVD to spin without the tray on it, then put a disc in and it spinned normal. I then slid the tray back in - giving the tray gears a good spinning - and I guess that did it as the tray now moves in and out. Yes. I DID do a happy-dance. I'm guessing the gears were just tossed out of whack, but I still dont understand why it wouldnt spin.

So basically two things were going on:

CD wouldnt spin. Tray wouldnt eject all the way. How do those two affect eahc other?