Dude, chill out with your posts. It's like reading verbal diarrhea. Put all your questions in one post, think before you post, and wait for answers. Most of these questions should be in the Newbies forum, too.
Right, bollocking over
You need to bring you mic signal up to line level before you can do anything with it. Therefore the first thing your mic signal does is go to your preamps. I wouldn't recommend using a multicore unless it is not a cheap one ... is there any particular reason you can't just plug your mic straight into the pre?
Preamps output to whatever dynamics or FX you want to add, or straight to you computer. Then obviously you put your monitoring chain afterwards.