Turn on debugging and advise any error messages.

I think the cloner is missing another variable: NewsStory

the error i myself encountered is

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: pspid() in C:\Domains\ps2home.co.uk\wwwroot\modules\psp\index.php on line 192

why this apear is beacause news section has a class called NewsStory extends XoopsStory wich is in the main class dir of xoops, and storyid() - that is the original name of the function before replace - is in the XoopsStory class.

The current fix i made is to replace all the pspid() back to the original storyid() .... seemed to work.

I will keep you posted :)

Cheers

[later edit]

it stoped all the errors ... but the storyid is not shown ... and so you can view/edit/delete news :( .... still searching for a solution

so far this seems to work ...
use clone script but remove the line 'storyid' => 'newsectionid',
you still need to rename a file :
article.php -> newsectionitem.php

and in that file find :
$xoopsOption['template_main'] = 'ps3_ps3item.html';
see how it has an extra ps3 ( that was my case ) the proper name is ps3_item.html

so far so good ... wish me luck