jQuery Lightbox Clone is not initialising properly

Answer 1

have you tried,

var link = $('<link>');
link.attr({
   'rel':'stylesheet',
   'media':'screen',
   'type':'text/css',
   'href':'colorbox/colorbox-images.css'
});
jQuery('head').append(link);

Answer 2

Turns out that it was a Float problem in the CSS, something didn't want to play ball.