I'm not sure what happened, and I'm new to Litestep (which might explain why I'm not sure how to fix this).

When I'm using Litestep, the autohide feature doesn't work with any other programs. I typically use the feature for trillian and winamp, and I tend to have these open whenever I'm using my system, so it's somewhat of an issue for me.

Are there any edits I can make to any configuration files to correct this and enable autohide for docked applications?

You mean like Autohide to a screen edge? Or like AutoMinimize to the Tray? or what?

Autohide when docked on the edge of the screen.

Do the apps even find the screen edge to dock to?

Trillian works fine, finding the edge of the screen and docking, with the experimental builds. It even adjusts the desktop size.

The programs find the edge and dock just fine, it's the autohide that does not work. Any program that will dock and has an autohide feature will dock, but will not autohide.

You need to use the experimental builds for this support, are you?

No, I am currently running a stable release.

Thank you, that answers my question directly.