night says... Hello,

I have started an instance on the ECC public cloud, and I'm having problems in accessing it. The instance is described as following:
euca-describe-instances
RESERVATION r-507D093F night default
INSTANCE i-48FF0864 emi-9F211773 173.205.188.131 10.7.0.194 running 0 m1.small 2010-08-26T13:05:00.252Z open eki-6CBD12F2 eri-A97113E4

I've searched the forum and i tried to access the instance using the following command:
ssh -i $EC2_PRIVATE_KEY night@173.205.188.131
ssh: connect to host 173.205.188.131 port 22: Connection timed out

My username on the ECC is night, and my keys are in the ~/.euca folder.

Can anybody provide some help?

Best regards,
Vlad Geagla

Ok, I've been doing some more research on the topic, and it seems I have to specify my key when starting an instance.
euca-add-keypair mykey > mykey.priv
And when I want to start an instance with that key, i get an error:
euca-run-instances -k mykey.priv emi-21CF15DE -t m1.small
KeyPairVerify: Failed to find key pair: mykey.priv for user nightError locating information for [SshKeyPair uniqueName=nightmykey.priv publicKey=null fingerPrint=null userName=night displayName=mykey.priv id=null version=0 lastUpdate=null]

I have also tried to start it directly with the private certificate that I've downloaded from the web interface:
uca-run-instances -k euca2-night-34a76613-pk.pem emi-21CF15DE -t m1.small
KeyPairVerify: Failed to find key pair: euca2-night-34a76613-pk.pem for user nightError locating information for [SshKeyPair uniqueName=nighteuca2-night-34a76613-pk.pem publicKey=null fingerPrint=null userName=night displayName=euca2-night-34a76613-pk.pem id=null version=0 lastUpdate=null]

I know that (most probably) I am the cause of this error, but I've read all the wikis / guides / blogs out there, and I still don't understand what i'm doing wrong.

Please help :).
Best regards,
Vlad