My guess here is that you are operating as a user other than user 1, but one with full administrative privileges....
In Drupal 6, the appropriate access argument is 'administer nodes', not 'administer content'.
As always, clear caches after any change to the menu hook.
Dave
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From: support-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Mutuku Ndeti Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2012 11:20 PM To: support@drupal.org Subject: Re: [support] issue with custom module menu path
My code is as before
$items['admin/mycustom_menu'] = array(
'title' => 'mycustom menu Settings',
'page callback' => 'my_custom_page',
'access arguments' => array('administer content'),
'type' => MENU_NORMAL_ITEM,
);
I have cleared cache and checked again.