[Cletus, from the Simpsons] Mah time ta shine.[/Cletus]
1. I distinctly remember a scene of them getting rescued in the morning, with Han popping out of a snow-covered shelter as snowspeeders whent overhead and he waved at them. No interior shot of it.
2. No way of explaining that one, I agree.
3. Storm trooper armor is actually pretty good ballistic/fragment armor, but there's not much that's man-wearable that will resist a blaster. Just like today, where full rifle-proof body armor is in the SAPI plates, but too cumbersome/heavy to wear everywhere.
Exactly. Since, under the Empire, blasters are basically illegal for the general population (Palpatine's no fan of the Second Amendment either!
), all that's needed is armor to resist civilian projectile weapons. TK armor is supposed to be rated to resist a glancing balster hit, or a stun charge, but a full-power, straight-on blaster bolt? Yeah, for that, your family gets a nice certificate from the unit CO about what a fine soldier you were prior to your untimely death at the hands of those Rebel scum. The armor also serves as short-duration protection from vacuum, a protected environment (suitable for moderately-hot or -cold climate and the like), and presents a menacing, faceless appearance to those the Emperor seeks to
oppress with an iron fist protect from the lawlessness of the Rebel Alliance.
4. They do hit the Millennium Falcon a lot. However as a small courier/pocket freighter it's larger than single-seat fighters, and has proportionally more powerful shields and deflectors. (TIE fighters, the basic model anyway, in contrast are a quantity vs. quality argument and have no shields at all...) Also, the Millennium Falcon is indeed FAST. If you've played any of the X-Wing or TIE-Fighter sims for the PC where the Falcon makes an appearance, it is incredibly fast and slippery due to all of Han Solo's modifications. It's even faster than the Alliance A-Wing, or the various advanced TIE models. If it keeps turning, it might stay in the dogfight area to get shot at, but you'll never actually catch it in a flat-out run.
In one TIE-Fighter sim mission where you're supposed to catch the Falcon, you've got about 10 seconds to do so from the start of the mission before it's out of range and it disappears into hyperspace.
Also, IIRC, there's a picture of what the original stock ship from the factory looks like and the cockpit is in the center between the two gapped winglets. So Han Solo has had some serious modifications to move the entire cockpit over onto the side like he did. (Presumably more room for engines/gear...)
No, the Falcon's cockpit was always over on the starboard side. Han's illegal upgrades included military-grade armor and deflectors, heavy weapons, and military realspace and hyperdrive systems which he then tinkered with to get far-better-than-stock performance out of (at the cost of having to beat on the instrument panels occasionally to get it all to work). Her shields, for example, are the only reason she wasn't destroyed by the hit
Avenger's gunners landed during their pursuit in the Hoth system (in ESB). A stock YT-1300 would likely have been torn in half by it.
5. Might have been part of a force-throw by Vader, or a Force-jump by Luke to escape. In the Prequels, you see more examples of how the Jedi are willing to jump/fall many stories and control their fall with the Force.
6. The family that lays together... stays together... 
7. Ewoks = FAIL. Should have been Wookies, and the battle take place on Kassyaak or whatever it's called.
Kashyyyk. And Lucas SHOULD have stuck with the Wookiees. Although that fan-film someone made several years back about "Endor's Hidden Menace" (shows how tough the Ewoks really are) as an explanation for how a bunch of teddy bears could defeat the Empire's finest WAS pretty funny.
8. The pimp is strong with that one...
Can't argue with that one!
