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I wanted to develop a duplicate General Settings Page instead of the built in one and all the settings on the built-in General Settings Page will also be displayed on the new General Settings Page.. the purpose of this is add some codes like inserting some options of a new table. How to accomplish this?

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You don’t. You would have to keep your new page in sync with the core file each time WordPress is updated … that would not be very pragmatic.
Hook into the do_settings_sections('general'); with register_setting() and add your code here.

There is a third parameter for register_setting(): you can register a callback function here which used before the value is saved to the database.

See the @Otto’s WordPress Settings API Tutorial for some examples. In one of my own plugins I do the same: Public Contact Data. See the method function add_contact_fields() for details.

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I basically want to run a mysql query upon submission of the general settings form.. like inserting the site title to a new table.. i want to accomplish this.. – Ken Jun 11 '12 at 11:40
@Ken See my update. – toscho♦ Jun 11 '12 at 11:45
If I understand correct you only wish to change the site title from the options-general.php and from a custom theme options page themes.php?page=theme_options? In that case I've recently asked a similar question here: wpquestions.com/question/show/id/4052 (just about the WP tagline) – Cor van Noorloos Jun 11 '12 at 15:04

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