I understand. I am moving this to Feature requests.
Henrik, I did think over what you said for some time, and ended up using a set variable command which includes the JobID in the variable name.
This solves my problem, in that when i clone a job, the variables will reference the new jobs GUID.
It still will result in my having, many hundreds of variables. Also, I realized that if I remove a job, I'll have to go in and manually find and delete all the variables with the GUID of the job deleted.
Thank you for your consideration.
Drew