New Mac with Yosemite - Top site icons move around

and sometimes drop off even though I've 'pinned' them. If there a way I can arrange them and they will stay put please?  I really liked the older version where you could EDIT the icons

Actually you first post is so long that most people just glance at it and move on. To say the least you are very verbose.
Your problem stems from something going wrong with permissions, as you know. How and why that happen is usually a user error of some type.
You can try to repair permissions and see if that corrects it. If not I will leave other options to someone that may know more about the permission system on a Mac.

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