>1) Is there a quick and dirty way of saving an object's properties (it's state) so that they can be restored later? At this time I wish to save the properties of the _SCREEN object to restore them later, but this is obviously a frequent situation and I am sure there is a one line solution.
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Rick Strahl's wwXML class will persist all of an object's properties to an XML (or string), and restore them them later.

>2) Along the same vein, is there generic way (sounds better than quick and dirty) of making a complete copy of an object? The difference with question one is that this time any objects contained in the source object are copied along with the properties.

Again, wwXML is the closest thing I have seen to what you are looking for,