Was working in Sonar X1, had a vocal track with clips split into smaller sections to apply V-Vocal on.  Once I had the track/clips set, should I have 'bounced to track'?
 
I left the track as is, and then cloned it, applied some effects to the clone to experiment.  Now, when I deleted the cloned track, the timing of the parent track was off from other instrument tracks by several beats.  I had never edited the original.  I ended up loading the last back-up copy of the project.
 
Anyway, how do the experts typically ensure a track won't change?  Bounce to new track, freeze...?
 
And when you 'bounce to track', do all of the Fx settings/outputs that were applied to the original track get saved in the new track?  For example, if the original track had a reverb plug-in applied, the new track audio will have reverb applied, but it's automatically embedded in the audio wave, there won't be a reverb Fx in the new track?  And how about the V-Vocal layers in original track?  Do they disappear in the new track?  Hope that makes sense.
 
Thanks.

You can go to Process>Apply Audio Effects (if X1 has that) and that will permamently apply all the effects to the selected track. All the effects in the FX bin will be deleted if you select that option from the menu.
I don't know how that will affect V-Vocal, though; I don't have that.
Bouncing to Tracks will do the same thing, except the data will be rendered to a new track, leaving the original track as is. All the effects will be applied to the track, but there won't be any effects in the FX bin.
You can then Archive the original track, or just mute it, leaving the effected track.
 

I never bother with any of that.

If I don't want a track to change, I just lock it for contents & position.

I've never had the need to bounce V-Vocal clips either, though of course YMMV: many users have had to freeze VV due to hardware limitations/configuration.