Now I feel all embarrased. I always thought that the two little brain-like things to the right and left of the uvula were the tonsils. Sorry. =/

I'm really not all that worried about it, because I haven't had any pain at all and I tend to to associate bad things with pain (although that isn't always the case), but I just don't want to be nastily surprised if I go to the ENT and something does turn out to be wrong. But thank you so much for the info on the salivary gland. At least now I know that it's supposed to be there.