amath

Well, I understand that bumping is frowned upon here (as it takes the post off the “no-replies” feed), but it has almost been three days with no reply so I am going to assume there won’t be one.

For anyone who was interested in this, I have found out some additional information on where the problem is being caused from. It has to deal with the wp_#_options table in the database. If you make an exact clone of it the cloned blog will function exactly as the original did up until you try to make an edit to the posts/ pages/ media, at which point it will go into the infinite loop (as stated above). I found this out by cloning every other table (from the host blog) except the options table and then running it and the clone worked fine (but didn’t have all the options I wanted cloned).

As I stated before, I would post code if anyone asked. Well, I have since then posted it elsewhere, so as to reduce the amount of typing and Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V I have to do in a single day I will just link to it:
Thread.

Hopefully someone has some insight as to which options require what to make a blog run correctly.