Thanks but sadly no joy -
Photo shows how the panel is present but only the cross appears.
this is the code I am using (with deliberate green/red and moved over on x to highlight for photo!)
<autoHide name="#Lyrics" xAnchor="Panel.Right" x="-1500" y="100" width="281" heightDock="Panel" height="50" bg="250,000,255,000" fg="255,000,000" fg2="000,000,255" allowPinning="true" resizePictures="true">
<element name="#LyricsPanel" type="Block" xAnchor="Panel.52" x="0" yAnchor="Panel.43" y="0" align="Middle.Left" widthDock="Panel.Width.43" width="0" heightDock="Panel.Width.43" height="0" bg="212,19,23,24" fg="180,180,180" fg2="200,200,200" disableHotPoint="false" allowPinning="true" resizePictures="false" />
<element type="Field" id="Title" xAnchor="#LyricsPanel.10" x="0" yAnchor="#LyricsPanel.2" y="0" widthDock="x:#LyricsPanel.90" width="0" font="Segoe UI" align="center" style="Bold" size="14" fg="255,255,255" />
<element type="Lyrics" xAnchor="#LyricsPanel.10" x="0" yAnchor="#LyricsPanel.10" y="0" widthDock="x:#LyricsPanel.90" width="0" heightDock="y:#LyricsPanel.90" height="0" font="Segoe UI" style="Regular" size="14" fg="255,255,000" fg2="255,000,000" />
</autoHide>
I suspect it is in the hard coding and simply not built to show the pin rather than an xml issue?
btw I had not used autoOpenLyrics before your suggestion but this is the artist info panel although it is the same for the other one. Adding it has no effect in either case