error starting sshd as a service

Sat Jul 1 04:00:00 GMT 2006

Hi
 My Win2003 server sshd stopped working last night, from the time of 
day I assume that it was an MS Windows update and in hindsight 
perhaps windows FW had started blocking it and it was reparable 
but... I decided instead to upgrade my Cygwin installation to the 
current release (bad move)
I have it at the point where I can run sshd as the sshd_server user 
("/usr/sbin/sshd -D") but when I start it as a service I get the 
message in the event viewer
"The sshd service was unable to log on as .\sshd_server with the 
currently configured password due to the following error: The 
parameter is incorrect."
I tried, against popular advice in the archives, to run as the local 
system account and turn off privilege separation in sshd_config but 
while the service started I then got the error "seteuid 1003 no such 
process" in the application event log every time I tried to ssh into 
the machine. So, I abandoned that effort and put it back to running 
as sshd_server.
I have uninstalled, reinstalled, checked the password for the user 
several times.
I have also googled and tried various advice offered on different 
pages for the last 6 hours. So, I decided that it is time to ask for 
help.
Here is what I have from cygrunsrv
$cygrunsrv -L
sshd
cygserver
$cygrunsrv -Q sshd
Service : sshd
Display name : CYG SSHD
Current State : Started
Command : /usr/sbin/sshd -D
I have no idea what parameter it is that's invalid (or even what 
command it is a parameter to) - ie a parameter to cygrunsrv or a 
parameter to sshd.
I have the machine running sshd -D from a session logged in as 
sshd_server but obviously this is not acceptable in the long term.
Thanks for reading this far, any advice or ideas?
---Raymond
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