I cant connect to sshd and when viewing my logs I see this error
auth.log
Jan 30 00:17:23 linux sshd[28463]: error: Bind to port 22 on 0.0.0.0 failed: Address already in use.

Since google is my friend I looked it up and found out that its probably the process starting twice. I removed the process and reinstalled, same result. I also tried changing the port to something crazy like 39321 just to make sure nothing else was using 22. Here are the results of some of my troubleshooting:

[root@linux log]# fuser -n tcp 22
22/tcp: 28463
[root@linux log]# ps -e |grep 28463
28463 ? 00:00:00 sshd
[root@linux log]# netstat -na |grep 2073
tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN

Please let me know what you think.
The GNUbie

Do you have any firewall rules in place?
iptables -nL

yes, I used to see the rejected packets in the logs but I added a rule and dont see it being rejected anymore. I can also telnet to the linux box from the LAN (XP machine) to the ssh port and it does get through (ie. the cmd prompt screen in xp goes blank)
and I now see these messages in /var/log/messages
Jan 30 11:30:04 linux sshd: refused connect from ::ffff:192.168.0.2 (::ffff:192.168.0.2)

if you still need to see iptables -nL I would be happy to post it, but its kinda lengthy (shorewall)

is there a way I can increase the loggin to help find out what the problem is?

I might be wrong but I think it was trying to start sshd for each nick card I have. So I went into my sshd_config file and specified the ListenAddress to my internet IP (Im not sure why this wasnt a problem before I reinstalled to 10.1)

next step... start sshd in debug mode, I posted the results below but I have no clue why its not connecting...

[root@linux ssh]# /usr/sbin/sshd -d
debug1: sshd version OpenSSH_3.9p1
debug1: private host key: #0 type 0 RSA1
debug1: read PEM private key done: type RSA
debug1: private host key: #1 type 1 RSA
debug1: read PEM private key done: type DSA
debug1: private host key: #2 type 2 DSA
debug1: rexec_argv[0]='/usr/sbin/sshd'
debug1: rexec_argv[1]='-d'
debug1: Bind to port 22 on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.
Server listening on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 22.
debug1: Server will not fork when running in debugging mode.
debug1: rexec start in 4 out 4 newsock 4 pipe -1 sock 7

next check /etc/hosts.allow
shd 192.168.0. [3ffe:ffff:100:200::]/64

ughhhh... )#*$#@$*&@!!! typo!!!
should have been:
sshd 192.168.0. [3ffe:ffff:100:200::]/64
granted I have no clue what the [3ffe:ffff:100:200::] part is for, but sshd:ALL works too.