Well after many hours of reading and typing, I finnaly got to log in and put the macros down on my shaman.

I was successfull in getting the 3 little cows to follow each other, although the targeting seemed a little shaky. The following macro seemed to not work sufficiently, so I had to modify it
/target[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,nomod:shift,target=Orbzz]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift,target=Orbzm]
[mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=Iceorbs]
[mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=Orbzem]
/follow
/targetlasttarget

To:
/target
[nomod,target=(Character Name)]
[mod:ctrl,nomod:alt,nomod:shift,target=Orbzz]
[mod:ctrl,mod:alt,nomod:shift,target=Orbzm]
[mod:ctrl,mod:shift,nomod:alt,target=Iceorbs]
[mod:alt,mod:shift,nomod:ctrl,target=Orbzem]
/follow
/targetlasttarget

nomod . target=target didn't work for me, it kept targeting one of the random alts, not really sure why ...disregard i believe its because keyclone was sending out the other commands to the windows. And I have that tilde key as the macro on both, so I will take that as a lesson learned on macroing the key while hostrings are broadcasting modifiers. Well so far so good, taking a break now.
I could still use a little clarification on the questions from my first post, if anyone can help its much appreciated.