I completely removed my cygwin installation and reinstalled. That fixed the problem. I don't know how things managed to get so broken; I think it was to do with running ssh-host-config as a second user perhaps, but I'm not sure of that.
So, problem solved, although not elegantly. Thanks for all the suggestions.
JP
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