I notice that when I restart my computer each panel will rearrange some icons against my will. I'm not sure why this is happening or how to dx it. Is this a common bug?

found an older bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=272812

What version of KDE ?
Are these widgets or icons (app shortcuts) or both ?
How many panels ? how many icons ?
If you create and test a new user ...... ?

Actually it's exactly as described in that bug report. Surprised it hasn't been fixed yet.

could be that it's not that reproducible, the bug report has 3 confirmations and none in the last 10 or so months, you should add your confirmation to the bug

do you have a large number of icons on your panels?

if your panel was originally created a long time ago and has been added to over the years maybe reseting your plasma desktop to the default and repopulating it will fix it

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kquitapp plasma-desktop
 sleep 20s
 mkdir -p $HOME/plasma-config/
 mv $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/plasma-desktop* $HOME/plasma-config/
plasma-desktop &

yes that is a bug guys

upgrade to last version to avoid a bug