I have one panel on the bottom of my screen and it's set to autohide. Most of the time it does hide itself when I move the mouse off of it but sometimes, it remains stuck raised (I can't figure out what circumstances causing the sticking). Once it's stuck, I can get it to autohiding itself again but right clicking on it and going to the properties dialog. I don't need to re-click autohide or anything; just right clicking on properties seems to do it.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 77588 ***