Photoshop Elements & Lightroom Set-Up

Hi!
I have Adobe Photoshop Elements 11, Premiere Elements 11, Lightroom 4, an external hard drive, and a MacBook Pro, but I'm not sure where to start.
1. I'm particularly wondering if I should download the software onto my computer, and put my photos onto the external hard drive (I thought it would be best to put my photos on the external hard drive, as to save my computer's memory, but am not sure if the software will be able to access the photos there)? What is the best set-up?
2. If the software on the computer can "find" the photos on the external hard drive, will the photos essentailly be saved onto my computer when I edit them with the software? If so, wouldn't this slow down my computer (or is there a way around this)?
3. Do these programs (e.g. Photoshop, Elements, Lightroom) work together? If so, how do I set them up to do this and use them this way?
4. How do I transfer the photos from my old computer to the external hard drive?
5. How do I transfer the photos from my phone to the external hard drive?
6. Do you have any other set-up or organization tips/resources?
Thanks a bunch!
A

I don't want to seem flippant, but that's exactly what I did - Actually I set up 2 presets here (one for Adobe RGB & one for sRGB).
As I stated previously, I set these up on 2 different computers (a MacPro and a MacBook Pro), each computer running a different version of OS-X (Lion & Mavericks, respectively).
I have successfully set up several external editors using various stand-alone programs - they all still work -- with the exception of Photoshop Elements 12.

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