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1. That's correct, the only differences are that a token cannot exist anywhere except the battlefield, so bouncing it back to your hand destroys it. It does however "touch" the graveyard long enough to trigger effects that require a creature to go to a graveyard, even though it ceases to exist right after that.

2. In almost every situation you're going to physically look at the top card once, choose whether to reveal, and if you reveal you put one token for each wolf-skull shaman just because that's most convenient. HOWEVER, legally what's happening is you're looking at the top card once per card with the kinship ability. That's important because what that card is might change depending on what happens in the game, someone might respond at instant speed and mill you for example.

There's also this card in the Ravnica block, that kills all non-token creatures. I'd say that answers the last bit of your first question. Also cards like Doubling Season let you put two tokens into play. Finally there's cards that make you sacrifice non-token creatures specifically. Those are the only effects I know of that interact with tokens specifically... There's no rule that says Tokens should be treated differently from Creatures, except for the fact that they have no converted mana cost.

Think of "token" as being a creature type, and everything else has the stats it's given. Tap an Imperious Perfect and you get a 0 cost Green Elf Warrior Token Creature.

I wouldn't call it a creature type, I would call it a card type, as in "Creature Token - Elf Warrior".

this is another question in regards to tokens, now for the eldrazi spawn, once you sacrafice them for the mana, is that mana permanent or is it a one time deal?

It's a one time deal, you sacrifice the token for 1 mana then you have to use it before your mana pool empties at the end of the current phase.