Loading an autosave appears not to reset object positions after they are moved.

A moving object (such as a scrolling background) does not reset to its original position once an autosave is loaded (in this case, after starting a new game using the initial autosave.) I now have to comb through my entire game for objects not set to their original position. Kind of a chore.

That sounds more like a "old savegame" related bug. Were the savegames created before the moving object was inside the game at all and added later?
There are several bugs which occur when loading a savegame which has not every data in it than the actual game.