[ilikejam]

The battery he's ended up with looks like it does have charge protection after all (6-pin chip under the kapton tape), which is probably a good thing.

[rrmoelker]

How can you tell from the small image?

I clicked through and the ebay link mentions: "Built-in protection circuit PCM for prevent over charging or over discharging."

[ilikejam]

The second-last pic in the article - there's a couple of 6-pin chips on the board.