Then I was corrected by this so - I dunno
That's not how I heard it.
Passover is not a weeklong celebration. It lasts 8 days.
The "roast lamb" is just a shankbone and need not be from a lamb although that's traditional. The meal need not be lamb and I've never seen lamb served. This may be an issue of Ashkenazi (how I was brought up) vs. Sephardic tradition.
The roasted egg does not represent the destruction of the Temple. It represents rebirth and the beginning of Spring.
The charoseth is made several ways. Generally it's chopped fruit and nuts, with wine. The idea is for it to look like bricks and mortar. I've never seen it made with almonds.
The salt water is not representative of the Red Sea; it's for the tears our forefathers shed while enslaved.
It's Karpas, not Karpar. We dip it into the salt water. That's the first dipping. The second dipping is charoseth into maror.
The wine and the plagues - when the plagues are mentioned, we don't sip the wine, we put a drop on our plates for each plague. We drink 4 cups of wine but the mentioning of the plagues is not one of those times.
We set out a cup for Elijah and also open the door for him at a point in the celebration.
It's not necessarily the youngest son who asks the Four Questions; it's the youngest person present. I asked the Four Questions for many years, until my cousins could do it. And if I'm at a seder where I'm the youngest (hey, it could still happen ), I would still recite them.
And, there are four questions, plus the lead (why is this night different from all other nights?). They are asked once, not five times. And that last answer you listed, "On all other nights we eat in any ordinary way.
On this night we dine in special ceremony." - I have never heard of that. It's true, but it's never been a part of any of the many seders I've attended.
The entire ceremony revolves around the Four Questions. They are one of the first things done (after handwashing) and then the meal continues with the answers being presented. E. g. this is the bread of affliction, etc.
This might represent a confusion with the story of the four sons: the wise one, the wicked one, the simple one and the one who is not yet old enough to ask a question. The wise one asks for the laws to be explained. The wicked one demands to know what G-d did for you (by mentioning you, he excludes himself and indicated he would not have been led out of Egypt with everyone else). The simple one asks "What is this?" and the one who cannot ask has everything explained to him because he can't yet speak.
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