s3 browser says my account is not valid ..

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I created an amazon s3 account and I downloaded s3 browser for windows here:

I put my keys in and tried to create a bucket, but it said my s3 account is not valid .. Is it possible it is too new ? Is there a better free browser ?

Thanks

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I tried the ruby aws gem. If I can get a key and secret key from amazon, I would assume my account is valid ? - unless it has not refreshed through the system. I get the error below.

I assume the "+' and "/i" at the beggining and end of the secret key are part of the key ?

If I can use this gem and get it to work, then maybe I don't need an s3 browser ?

C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\test> gem i aws-s3

C:\Users\Laurence\rails-play\test>s3sh

AWS::S3::Base.establish_connection!(

?> :access_key_id => 'Azzzzzzzzzzzzzzz', ?> :secret_access_key => '+**************************/i'

  )

=> #<AWS::S3::Connection:0x5953950 @http=#<Net::HTTP s3.amazonaws.com: 80 open=fa

,

@options={:server=>"s3.amazonaws.com", :access_key_id=>"*************** XQ", :secret_access_key=>"+**************/i", :port=>80}, @secret_access_key="+*****************/i", @access_key_id=" AKIAJVY7TZDTM3SBLCXQ">

bucket = Bucket.create('free-spirit')

AWS::S3::NotSignedUp: Your account is not signed up for the S3 service. You must sign up before you can use S3.         from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/bin/../lib/ aws/s3/er ror.rb:38:in `raise'         from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/bin/../lib/ aws/s3/ba se.rb:72:in `request'         from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/bin/../lib/ aws/s3/ba se.rb:88:in `put'         from C:/Ruby187/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/aws-s3-0.6.2/bin/../lib/ aws/s3/bu cket.rb:79:in `create'         from (irb):5