Need help getting telnet access

Question

I am a little new to this and still going to college, I see you guys have really good support here. I bought a 3500XL switch off ebay to help me learn some cisco equipment as my instructor suggested it would be of great help getting ahead. I have done my basic configuration of the switch by setting up my switch ip address, enabling the vty 0 4 password and all but when i use SecureCRT to connect it gives me the error "The remote system refused the connection." and I cant seem to figure it out. I thought maybe the IP address I setup was conflicting somehow so I reassigned it to the last ip 192.168.100.254 instead of 192.168.100.1 and still no luck. I double checked and even setup the password from vty 0-15 just to make sure I had enough ports open to connect. Here is what my config looks like
Current configuration:
version 12.0
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
service password-encryption
hostname Neo
enable secret 5 (Left Out)
username James password 7 (Left Out)
ip subnet-zero
ip domain-name (Left Out).com
interface FastEthernet0/1
interface FastEthernet0/2
interface FastEthernet0/3
interface FastEthernet0/4
interface FastEthernet0/5
interface FastEthernet0/6
interface FastEthernet0/7
interface FastEthernet0/8
interface FastEthernet0/9
interface FastEthernet0/10
interface FastEthernet0/11
interface FastEthernet0/12
interface FastEthernet0/13
interface FastEthernet0/14
interface FastEthernet0/15
interface FastEthernet0/16
interface FastEthernet0/17
interface FastEthernet0/18
interface FastEthernet0/19
interface FastEthernet0/20
interface FastEthernet0/21
interface FastEthernet0/22
interface FastEthernet0/23
interface FastEthernet0/24
interface FastEthernet0/25
interface FastEthernet0/26
interface FastEthernet0/27
interface FastEthernet0/28
interface FastEthernet0/29
interface FastEthernet0/30
interface FastEthernet0/31
interface FastEthernet0/32
interface FastEthernet0/33
interface FastEthernet0/34
interface FastEthernet0/35
interface FastEthernet0/36
interface FastEthernet0/37
interface FastEthernet0/38
interface FastEthernet0/39
interface FastEthernet0/40
interface FastEthernet0/41
interface FastEthernet0/42
interface FastEthernet0/43
interface FastEthernet0/44
interface FastEthernet0/45
interface FastEthernet0/46
interface FastEthernet0/47
interface FastEthernet0/48
interface GigabitEthernet0/1
interface GigabitEthernet0/2
interface VLAN1
ip address 192.168.100.254 255.255.255.0
no ip directed-broadcast
no ip route-cache
ip default-gateway (Left Out)
snmp-server engineID local 0000000902000009B7473E00
snmp-server community private RW
snmp-server community public RO
banner motd ^C
DO NOT LOG ON UNLESS YOU HAVE BEEN PERMITTED BY THE OWNER
^C
line con 0
password 7 (Left Out)
login
transport input none
stopbits 1
line vty 0 4
password 7 (Left Out)
login
line vty 5 15
login
end

Answer 1

I have my default gateway setup but it is setup for my access to the internet, to access it right now i use a rollover cable but I am wanting to use an ethernet cable from my pc to the switch to connect. I can ping the switch from DOS fine and when I ping my pc it pings perfect too. Im sure its something simple I looked over but its gonna drive me crazy till I get it :-)
the pc is on a network of 192.168.100.2 subnet 255.255.255.0
the switch is on a network of 192.168.100.254  subnet 255.255.255.0
my router is on a network of 192.168.100.1  subnet 255.255.255.0