Genesis Chapters 1-9

Genesis Chapters 1-9 cover the stories of creation, Adam & Eve, and Noah. These are common stories and, to be honest, I didn't expect to gain much from reading Genesis, but re-reading these chapters brought up some old questions I've never quite answered before and some new questions:

• The order of creation in Chapters 1 & 2 is not the same. This has always bothered me a little bit, even though I know these chapters are not intended to be read literally.
• When G-d gives us dominion over all living things at reaction, he tells us that he has given us every plant to eat. He doesn't say anything about eating animals Noah.
  Genesis 1:28-29"...Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing... See, I have given you every plant yielding seed ... and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food."
  Genesis 2:16 "And the Lord G-d commanded the man, "You may eat freely of every tree of the garden."
  Genesis 9:3-4 "Every moving thing that lives shall be food for youl and just as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. Only, you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood."
• When Cain is punished for killing his brother in Genesis 4:10-16, he is concerned that "anyone who meets me may kill me". If there were no other people besides Adam, Even, Cain & Abel, who is he concerned about killing him? For that matter, who are they marrying?
• Man, people lived a long time in the old testament. Nearly everyone in the geneology from Adam to Noah lived over 700 years. Then it looks like in Genesis 6:3 G-d limits life span to 120 years. Will this limitation stick? Am I mis-reading this chapter?
• In the list of descendents from Adam to Noah, nearly every paragraph reads the same: When A had lived X years, he became father of B. A lived afer the birth of B Y years, and had other sons and daughters. Thus all the days of A were (X+Y) years; and he died.
• From Adam to Noah is just 926 years, so Adam (who lived 930 years)would have just passed away when Noah was born. That just doesn't seem right.
• Enoch is the exception to this formula: Genesis 5:21-24: "When Enoch had lived 65 years, he became the father of Methuselah. Enoch walked with G-d after the birth of Methusela three hundred years, and had other sons and duaghters. Thus all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty-five years. Enoch walked with G-d; then he was no more, because G-d took him." Enoch must be someone very special to get an exception to the formula like this; I'd like to know more about him.
• The beginning of Chapter 6 is just confusing, "When people began to multiply on the face of the ground.. the sons of G-d saw that they were fair; and they took wives for themselves of all that they chose.... The Nephilim were on the earth in those days ... when the sons of G-d whent in to the daughters of hunans, who bore children to them. These were heroes that were of old, warriors of renown."
• The time that Noah spent in the ark is very exact: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of that month.
• They spent a REALLY LONG time in the ark: a year and 10 days to be exact.
• G-d left a big loophole in his covenant by Noah; the only thing he promises is that he will never again to be flood to destroy the earth. I imagine there are quite a few other ways to destroy us if G-d so chooses.
• Lastly: I have never understood the story of Noah getting drunk. Noah gets drunk and passes out naked. His son Ham stumbles upon him & tells his brothers, so Ham's brothers cover Noah up. Then Noah awakes from the whine and when he "knew what his youngest son had done to him..." he curses the first-born of Ham. What is that Ham did that was wrong? stumble upon him or tell his brothers? What is the point or moral of this story? Obviously drunkeness like that of Noah's is bad, but Noah isn't the one who is punished.