It sounds to me as if your loads were way too hot. Do you have pitting in a circular pattern on your bolt face around the firing pin hole? That is caused by gas leakage around the primers, usually a sign of either overpressure loads or loose primers.
Either way, not a good show.
Here's a picture of some of the classic signs of overpressure that you might see on your brass:
Did you anneal your brass? If the annealing was not limited to above the shoulder, perhaps the bases of your brass got too hot and thus too soft.
There is no easy solution to fixing the ejector problem. Your ejector was likely forced back to far that it kinked the spring inside the hole and it is stuck there. Either that or it is stuck by a bit of brass that got in there with it and then was sheared off when you opened the bolt. Try gently tapping it with a pin punch to get it to move. It can't hurt to squirt some penetrating oil (such as Kroil or Liquid wrench)in there.
If it is really stuck, I suppose you could try drilling it out, and then replacing with the new style ejector. (http://www.savageshooters.com/showth...l=1#post212961)
If that does not work, you could replace the bolt head, but remember to check your headspace if you do that.
Smarter members will perhaps have better solutions.
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