Is there a way to not loose a level when cloning?

[Max Caysey]

This combo can't work. Mind switch doesn't have any text to say that you retain your intelligence score. Therefore, when you mind switch you either lose the effect of PAO or take the effect with you keeping you a sarruhk. My money is on the first one.

Neither does it have any text to say that you loose it! Nor that any of your ongoing spells are dispelled... In fact following your logic, I can infer that Mind switching will grant me the mental scores of a great wyrm time dragon. It doesn't say it will, but if your assertion is correct so too is mine!

... what can be asserting with out evidence can be dismissed without evidence!