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The only time I experienced hopping on the front end in autocross was when I pumped up the compression and rebound too much on my coilovers, resulting in the car basically skipping across even the slightest uneven surface.
In the case of your stock car, that obviously isn't it. It sounds like you're simply understeering. Keep in mind that the parking lots, and other venues where autocrosses happen are NOT race tracks. They generally aren't very smooth surfaces. You're also making much sharper turns at much lower speeds. Understeering through a sharp, uneven road surface can cause the front to skip around a bit.
As everyone else has said, the biggest issue people have is being smooth with their inputs at autocross. It's much harder to be smooth than on a track, with big, open, sweeping turns (relatively speaking) that naturally lend themselves to slower, smoother steering inputs. In autocross it's LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT!!! and people just kind of saw the wheel back and forth, which unsettles the car. They also just tend to plow too quickly into turns (something I'm still working on two years later).
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