Java Security

I ran into some trouble with my keystore, and by the way, as you will soon discern, I am a newbie to Security. I deleted by .kestore file because I was getting some problems connecting to a secure socket, and I think that my keystore stopped getting updated with my various entries from examples. I wanted to start over so I deleted the old, but it is still in my recycle bin. But, I ran the keytool to generate a new one:

keytool -genkey -keystore hosting_certs -keyalg rsa -alias hosting -storepass password -keypass serverpassword

I answered all the questions and it appeared that everything was fine, and yet my .keystore file was not created. From what I understand from the docs, this should have been created if it didn't exist. I subsequently try to list it with

keytool -list -alias hosting, and it tells me what I've come to know, that the file .keystore doesn't exist.

Windows XP professional, jsdk1.4.2_05