Justgeeking

“Access is denied. Check that the Default Content Access Account has access to this content, or add a crawl rule to crawl this content. (The item was deleted because it was either not found or the crawler was denied access to it.)”

I have gotten this error on other deployments but recently I applied on the typically solutions with no success. I eventually came across this blog that ended up resolving my issue.

http://blogs.msdn.com/feldman/archive/2008/09/18/access-denied-with-windows-server-2008-and-moss-when-crawling.aspx?CommentPosted=true#commentmessage

Which ultimatly references this Kb by Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896861