Custom master page showing access denied error to users

Hi all,

Whenever I create a new master page and set it as the custom one(using SPD),the home page(default.aspx) will throw an 'access denied error' to all the site users other than the administrator.
Can anyone help me with this
The default.aspx for the subsites are also working fine. But for the topsite, it is showing no access to all site users.

All these started, earlier when i wrote a script function inside the master page. But later i removed it and made the contents exactly the same as the master page. But still the scenario remains the same.(I dunno whether it has got anything to do with this error.)

Please help,

Alex.

Mike,

Thx a lot for the reply.I tried doing wht u said, but with no success .

Its something related to the default.aspx pagem, I think. because there is no probs at all with the other pages.But i never edited default.aspx also. I created a new master page and edited tht.

Anyone having any sort of thinkings regarding this,please share it..

John...

U are correct!

the page was not approved and that was the problem.

thank you so much