--Leave the brake fluid alone.
--Good idea just to pull the battery out and save a potential fire if you later forget unbolt your wires from it.
--Timing belt can stay together on the motor.
--Yes the tranny will try to fall over and it will need to be tied up. It has mounts but you don't want to put any unwanted stress.
--When you get to step 13, then post b/c you might be too tired to want to mess with taking a motor apart that day.
-- For reference, I can get the 420A out of a neon in about 3 hours. That's with a buddy, and Neon's are a tad more friendlier than our 2gnt's. A word of advice, you will finish much faster by taking your time,taking breaks, and being careful rather than trying to hurry though it or being too rough on a part that will break and take more time to fix.

Shit is all apart. Typical...