well, as for one of the notetags for the state that was all that was written in there.
as for my plugin params...
I use a LOT of plugins, but for this instance I only left on the following...
and the bars still wouldn't disappear.
I did notice one weird thing though between the help file and the demo... the help says to put <Hide Status Bar> which threw me an error, but once I changed it to <Hide State Bar> nothing would happen.
hopefully any of this is helpful to you.