According to the doc, it's a sebacious cyst, one that is in a bunch of nerves that'll need very careful surgery to remove the next time it really gets inflamed.
However, since the antibiotics really didn't make much of a dent on the sucker, I'm going to keep a very close eye on this one.
hackery
My laptop's hard drive has just about expired. I've lost my PST to the god of missing sectors.
I received patches from Jeff Dike for the Win32 version of User Mode Linux, but until I can get my hd problem sorted, I can't really work on it.
I'm working on trying to get a bunch of security fixes out for XFree86. If David or Matthieu are reading this, my mind is back on the job.
I still need to find the advisory I wrote up for it, but I have this sinking feeling it's in the PST that was.