Вроде, обработчики нормально «клонируются»
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.6.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() { $("p").bind("click", function() { $("body").append($(this).clone(true)); }); });
</script>
</head>
<body>
<p>Clone by click</p>
</body>
</html>