[Inkscape-devel] Strange Padding

Hi, all:

I'm getting a strange, annoying padding around my object, and I can't account for it.

When I select the object, it seems that more than the object is selected, because various extensions report the error that "no path is selected." I've tried to extract the nodes and repaste them, but the annoying "padding" is preserved across the copy&paste.

Here is one such object: http://www.flight.us/misc/strange_padding.svg