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Hey guys I have a large website I am trying to clean out; there are a ton of pages and quite a few of them are orphaned. (a page with no pages that link to it, IE, a page that can't be gotten to).

Is there an online service or a program that will find orphaned pages?

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Not an answer, but the term you are looking for is "Orphaned" pages. That terminology may help your search. Might not too. ;) – techie007 Jan 28 '10 at 21:02
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There are tools that will compare your web site against the file system and show the orphans (and lots of other data). The name of the one I once used escapes me... – Chris Nava Jan 28 '10 at 21:43
For comparing, maybe: wget -P reachable --mirror --page-requisites site and diff -qr reachable htdocs – Tobu Jan 28 '10 at 22:38
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I used Macromedia Dreamweaver's Site Report > Check Links > Orphan Pages as well as online free service http://www.dead-links.com/ .

I also used unix grep to double check a few randomly.

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If I'd seen this question when it was first posted I would have suggested the same thing – Mark Henderson♦ Feb 2 '10 at 21:08
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You didn't mention what web server you are running, but here is a link to a similar question with some answers specific to IIS:
http://serverfault.com/questions/37750/is-there-an-easy-way-to-generate-a-report-on-dead-files-in-iis

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dead links appear to have an apache problem ATM: "It works!"... no it does not

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