If you check "Use Mouse Activation" in the properties, your dock will pop up when you put your cursor near the edge.

in the objectdock settings, you can choose to have it 'always on top'.

also,

if you happen to be using winfx, you can set it so that maximized windows will not cover certain areas of the screen.. it works by having you set the maximum window size, then setting it's location. i have my taskbar at the top of the screen, and stuff always covers it.. so i have winfx kick the maximized windows down about 20 pixels.

and i dont want it always on top

First tab, position on screen, try "always on bottom" or "normal windows z ordering". You want to click configure dock to get to ObjectDock properties.

In the new version of Objectdock, "always on bottom" will cause the links to activate without bring the bar to the top.

I like that idea also I want to know why thigns arent being uploaded to the section. I uploaded something on Wednesday and it is almost Tuesday now. Anyways I have had to turn OD off because it actually goes over everything no matter what, I think it is because I have some other programs running and have some manual registry edits I have done, likely with a little mixup too.