I don't know about the second thing, but...
It has been stated that the intended behavior (because it happens to work this way and they want to document it as such, not because it was necessarily designed this way) is that cloned rules point to the "original" rule and not the new cloned one when you have actions that point to "This Rule." I wouldn't count on that changing, from what I've read.
Here's one discussion on this; I know there are others I can't find at the moment (including one where I pointed out to Bruce that this is indeed what was happening 
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