Need Help - Adjusting a clone's speed

I have a template "enemy" object and a "spawn" object which spawns the template enemy. The template creature has a behavior attached which tells it how to move (including at what speed). Everything works great.

Now, I am wanting to dynamically change the CLONED object's speed as depicted by its attached behavior. I tried passing a variable to the spawn function for the spawner and got mixed results.

I have no problems passing the speed variable to the spawn function.

If the spawned clone gets attached to a path, I can easily use the variable I passed in to set the enemy's speed on its path. This works no problem.

If the spawned clone is NOT attached to a path, the speed variable I gave it does NOTHING!

So here is the code for spawning a creature:

function SpawnAreaBehavior::spawn(%this,%speed)
{
     if (!isObject(%this.object))
        return;

     %clone = %this.object.cloneWithBehaviors();
     %xPos = 0;
     %yPos = 0;
     %spawnLocation = %this.spawnLocation;
     %edges = "Top" TAB "Bottom" TAB "Left" TAB "Right";
     if (%spawnLocation $= "Edges")
        %spawnLocation = getField(%edges, getRandom(0, 3));

     switch$ (%spawnLocation)
     {
        case "Area":
           %xPos = getRandom(getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 0), getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 0));
           %yPos = getRandom(getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 1), getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 1));
        case "Center":
           %xPos = %this.owner.position.x;
           %yPos = %this.owner.position.y;
        case "Top":
           %xPos = getRandom(getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 0), getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 0));
           %yPos = getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 1);
        case "Bottom":
           %xPos = getRandom(getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 0), getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 0));
           %yPos = getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 1);
        case "Left":
           %xPos = getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 0);
           %yPos = getRandom(getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 1), getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 1));
        case "Right":
           %xPos = getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 0);
           %yPos = getRandom(getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMin(), 1), getWord(%this.owner.getAreaMax(), 1));
     }

     %clone.position = %xPos SPC %yPos;

     ////////////////////////////////////////////////////
     //Speed Code
     //
     //%clone.setMinLinearVelocity(%speed);
     //%clone.setMaxLinearVelocity(%speed);
     //
     ///////////////////////////////////////////////////

     %this.spawnCount++;
     if (%this.spawnCount < %this.count)
     {
        %minTime = (%this.spawnTime - %this.spawnVariance) * 1000;
        %maxTime = (%this.spawnTime + %this.spawnVariance) * 1000;
        %spawnTime = getRandom(%minTime, %maxTime);
        %this.schedule(%spawnTime, "spawn");
     }

     if(isObject(%this.patrolPath))
     {
       echo("Trying to get patrol path: "@ %this.patrolpath);
       %this.patrolPath.attachObject(%clone, %speed, 0.0, 9, 10,"WRAP", 2, true);
     }
}

You can see at the end of the code, I check to see if the object has a patrolPath, and if so, attach the object to its assigned path at %speed. I seperated out the lines I have to set the clone's speed and they have been commented out because they were ineffective.

I also tried using: %clone.minSpeed = %speed;
No luck there either...

Any ideas? Keeping in mind it has to be done on spawn. I am not trying to adjust their speeds after they are created.