It actually does copy the unit entirely, but not the things (model) which the thing which is linked to your unit (actor) needs.
If your unit loses it's model, you should find the actor linked to your unit. This most-likely is something like "Marine Copy" if it concerns a Marine. Inside that actor you have to find "Art-Model". It'll say something like "Marine Model Copy", which doesn't exist. Select it and tab arrow key up, so it will be "Marine Model", which actually DOES exist. And voila, there is your model.
I don't think I'm dealing with quite the same pressures though, at the very least its a significantly smaller system. For the time being I'm just going to put together a quick scrubby box though and hope it works good enough to not make my house toxic
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.