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clone photography/multiplicity/double exposure help?

for my photography coursework I want to try various different effects and techniques to help my photos to stand out from the crowd, and I discovered clone photography today, I have several different ideas for it but it's really puzzling me how you can do it, (I'm on a digital camera and have photoshop). So the old fashioned 'turning the camera back to the previous frame on the film' trick won't work.
I had an idea of a copy of myself holding hands, with myself. but I'm really confused on how I could get it to work..
kind of like this:

Firstly, my first actual attempt at a full blown multiple me... http://www.flickr.com/photos/martinspooner_luton/5460651160/ although I did know how to do it before I actually went to the trouble to do one.

It was three photos I then layered in The Gimp (a digital editor like Photoshop). I then erased away the layers to reveal each of me. I used the eraser tool. I think the left me looks taller than the right me. But I didn't alter anything between shots (actually that's important - use manual setting on everything when you take the photos so the auto settings don't change the colour or exposure between shots). My thinking is that I was using a focal length of 14mm (on a 2x sensor crop body) and I've got some wide-angle distortion.

The hand-shaking is cool. I don't have an original thought in my body (a problem for me) and I'm stealing that idea tomorrow night, let me tell you. I'm going to use four or five photos... I always take one empty shot of the background, then I'll take a photo of me sticking my hand at the mirror, then another photo of me sticking my hand at the mirror but with a different expression on my face, then a photo of me shaking hands with someone else but roughly in the area of the other photos, obviously we won't fit in the exact area but roughly the same for the lighting and exposure. I'll do as above but with the extra of cutting in the shaking hands.

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