static panels not letting Anchor update?

[patch24]

I'm finding that when using the automatic checkbox on UIRoot along with a panel marked static, when the app starts up it doesn't move the sprites over to their correct anchor positions.  It's really odd, the colliders etc are moved to the right spot though. so if I click in the seemingly empty area to the side of where the incorrectly placed sprite images appear, it registers a button hit and then updates the sprite after. 
My dir structure looks like:
UIRoot     <----set to 'Automatic'
   -UICamera
      -UIPanel (static)
         --Buttons

[ArenMook]

When you say yo mark the panel as static, do you mean "widgetsAreStatic" or gameObject.isStatic?

[ranilian]

I'm not sure if this is related or not, but when you set the Panels' widgetsAreStatic button to true, it doesn't seem to update anymore in editor mode.

[ArenMook]

Thanks, I'll fix that.

[patch24]

I'm referring to the checkbox in UIPanel for widgets.

[ArenMook]

Your hierarchy should have UIAnchor above the panel, then it will work. "widgets are static" checkbox tells NGUI that widgets aren't going to move, but UIAnchor moves them. It will only work if the anchor is above the panel, not below.