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1) Yes. The Apply Attributes to Selected Spaces button will let you assign a space type to all selected spaces.

2) Yes, Sketchup is the place for it.

3) Yes. There are lots of examples in OpenStudio measures, try the Predicted Mean Vote measure. It has a very tody example of populating a a dropdown selector with Schedule options. There is a few lines of code required to get a list of things and make them into a set of choices.

4) Start with an existing Sketchup User Script does anything to spaces or zones. You can explore the OpenStudio API through the Sketchup Ruby console. to get access to the model use model = Sketchup.active_model.model_interface.openstudio_model

5.1) Try this Measure Writing Guide. There's not that much too it.

5.2) You'll need to restart Sketchup to get a new script to show up initially. Once in there, There is a menu option to Reload User Scripts which will refresh changes.