I don't have time to read the entire novel you just wrote lol, but I will come back to it later.
For now I can say that GPT is supported, UEFI is not, because of chameleon. Chameleon is a boot-132 based bootloader, not an EFI bootloader. Though there are some EFI bootloaders for osx out there they are all still in their alpha phase of development and take a bit more know how to achieve functional installs with so I would not suggest them to the novice nor would I suggest them to anyone with a system that requires more 'hacking/modifications' to get functioning correctly, like most notebooks.