Change axes label position

Hello,

I have a problem which I somehow can't solve on my own at this moment. I have an axes in an existing figure and want to open a new figure on which I plot the this axes as a subplot. (with xlabel, ylabel, line and so on)

The problematic part of code for this is the following:

data= findall(oldaxeshandle);
data=data(2:end);
fig=figure;
handles.subp=subplot(2,2,[1,2]);
copyobj(data,handles.subp);

The occuring problem is that the x- and ylabels are misplaced (not centered and too far away from the plot) and that some properties like xlim arent copied at all. Is there some way to make it without these problems? Or at least a way to "center" and restore the normal label position?

Thank you for your help! Klaus