Thank you all for the feedback and I do see the disconnect.
Clark, you are absolutely correct that the Auto-hide is working with respect to the mouse click focus changes, an obvious feature to which I wasn't aware of until today.
What I have become accustom to in 2013 and earlier releases, is the Tools Windows automatically expanding when the mouse "hovers" over the collapsed Tools Window icon. This doesn't occur in 2014. The mouse "hover" is detected by the Tools Window Icon by the fact that the "selection bar" changes color, but unfortunately the Tool Window doesn't expand.