Can someone help me troubleshoot SSH?

[ToyotaDiesel]

Ok, I've done the procedure in the Awkward SSH (for Leopard) how-to several times. I've verified that procedure with several other sources. I've covered the gotchas like getting the SSHD from patchstick, and chowning and chmodding all the files, and I've even tried my ssh.plist from both my working leopard intel macbook pro and also tried copying the plist contents from here and the original location in the forums. My files came from a mounted darwin8_i386 image from Apple.

I swear this should work..

Here is what I'm getting when I try:

MacBookPro:~ Ben$ ssh -1 -v frontrow@192.168.1.193
OpenSSH_4.7p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006
debug1: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh_config
debug1: Connecting to 192.168.1.193 [192.168.1.193] port 22.
debug1: Connection established.
debug1: identity file /Users/Ben/.ssh/identity type -1
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
MacBookPro:~ Ben$