Objects randomly jumping into UI Root

[greenland]

I've the most mind-bogglingly bizarre error; a key game object is switching it's parent transform to UI Root, and it's layer to NGUI, seemingly at random. I cannot figure out what's causing this to happen, and I've done nothing that even vaguely relates those two objects. The game becomes immediately unplayable in this state.

I have no idea what's going on.
I'm hoping this is specific and weird enough that someone will be able to identify what's causing it, because I can't paste in the area of code that's causing it.

[greenland]

Also: I tried deleting UI Root at runtime, hoping that it would give me an object reference error when it occured, but instead, it created a new UI Root GameObject by itself and did the same thing. 

[ArenMook]

My guess is you have a widget underneath it. Widgets cause the parent object to be re-paranted to a panel unless there is already a panel present. You can't have stray widgets around. You must make them be children of some UIPanel.

[greenland]

My guess is you have a widget underneath it. Widgets cause the parent object to be re-paranted to a panel unless there is already a panel present. You can't have stray widgets around. You must make them be children of some UIPanel.

Thanks! I was adding a HudText behavior and evidently it was doing something derpy. I can fix it now that I've reassurance that i've not yet gone completely mad.