I don't have time to work up an example, but what you want to do would/ could involve:
.clone http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/clone#true and .remove http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/remove#expr
I don't have time to work up an example, but what you want to do would/ could involve:
.clone http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/clone#true and .remove http://docs.jquery.com/Manipulation/remove#expr