^ Scratch that, the clone instance won’t output now.
Any suggestions or better methods to run the same widget with different settings?
By all means if there was a better way to do this, show me the light!
I did some reading about widgets and found how they store, update, and load options with built-in wordpress functions. I just had to rename a couple initial vars and everything worked like a charm :]
For anyone interested, here’s a cloned vers of visual categories that you can use simultaneously with the original:
http://rapidshare.com/files/294393732/viscatsCloneInst.zip.html