Cloning a maxis slave object with standalone textures?

Hi, I'm trying to clone an object that is a slave of a Maxis set. I want the object properties, but I don't want the object to be slaved, I just want to use my own textures. Is this possible? Is there any information all those checkboxes when cloning. I was thinking of trying the standalone object... but I reckoned it might be more productive to ask around before fiddling with things.

First thing is to clone it and have it working as a repositoried object, then you need to add the objects own txmt and mmat and edit the gmnd. Tutorial here :

http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=103379

Thanks a bunch.