I think the best way to do this would be to save the VI you want to open multiple time as a VI template (.vit).
Then when you open a reference to the template and open the front panel, the template gets renamed with a sequencial number, and it changes to a .vi, just as if you had opened the template from the File>New... menu selection. So each time you open a reference and the front panel of that reference, you get a uniquely named VI with its own memory space. One thing to remember is that these spawned VIs will not be saved, they exsist only in memory. So if you want to save them, you will have to do it manually through menu or use 'Save Instrument' invoke node. Ed
