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David Rasmussen wrote:

> 1) How do I enable syntax highlighting by default, for any type of file 
> / extension / mode that supports it?

Put

   (global-font-lock-mode t)

in one of your startup files (~/.emacs or site-start.el, or whatever).

-- 
Uwe