I currently have a cygwin SSH (openSSH for windows) running that I connect to with Putty to create a SSH tunnel sock5 proxy to access the internet with my home connection.

I would like to move the 'ssh tunnel proxy' to my openwrt box.  So i don't have to leave the PC running.

Can I install openssh or use dropbear to get this done?

if openssh, will it replace dropbear?  Wil is still have the same functionality with openssh as with dropbear currently?

if dropdbear, can it do tunneling as openssh does?

Well......  i feel silly

It appears all you have to do is setup the same ports to forward through the tunnel and it works. fine. using dropbear. on openwrt

same results and using openssh

whatismyip.com reports the wan ip of the router and I can browse...

Good to go.