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Yeah, as Seth said, this sort of stuff needs to go to ROM Hacking. :x
Anyways, to partially answer your question, the first is because all of the things you're downloading are called "IPS patches". Read up here to see how to work those.
Your best option for the second question is a program called unLZ.gba. Look in HackMew's tools in the Toolbox section. :3