Desktop icons get mixed up after reboot

The file and folder icons on my desktop get mixed up after reboot. The problem does not appear always but quite often. It cost me much time to arrange the desktop icons back to their original state. The problem aready exists since MacOSX 10.6.2 (or previously).

Hello KXsig,
thank you for your quick response and welcome greetings!
Yes, I use an application which interacts with the desktop: Safari for example when I use Drag&Drop to copy a picture from Safari to my Desktop. With MacOSX 10.4.11/Safari and MacOSX 10.5/Safari this problem never appeared. My girl friend who uses the same system (MacOSX 10.6.4) on the same Mac has the same problem!
I like the Stacks in the Dock but they are no substitute for the Desktop. I also do not want to have to adjust my behavior to my computer to get it work properly.
In my experience, the probability that the symbols are mixed up after a restart, is bigger, especially if there are already a number of icons on the right bottom of the Desktop. Perhaps the programmers of the new Finder decided to "clean up" the icons in this case. Older versions of the Finder started to stack the symbols about one another in this case. I prefer this behavior. In my opinion it is a bug. Is there a workaround ? In a German forum I have read that it helped to do something with the file ~/Desktop/.DS_Store. However, I do not know any more what this was.
Any ideas ?

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