ok buick centuary 2003 tape player problem (real car ppl needed here)?

[xandu23914]

my mom has a buick Century 2003, and i always used one of them tapes in them to connect to my ipod and listened to my ipod with it. well about 3 months ago, i turned the car off, and hit eject, like i usually do and left. well when i got back in the next day, i turned on the car and the "tape in" light was still lit after the tape and my ipod was removed. i can't put a tape in now, and if i have the tape rest in the cassette slot and hit eject, it actually takes the tape in, and then shoves it out again. so in other words, it don't stay in. and i want this to go away so i can listen to my ipod instead of the radio.

any help to get the car to figure out that there is no real tape in there??