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I do like lager yeast a lot. It is use for a lot of lambic style beer's and can add nice flavors

Use the champagne yeast. I have used the other two and they taste way to much like one and leave little to no apple flavor. I use lager yeast or ale yeast. You get the most apple flavor.

It will ferment all the sugar

If it is pasturized it doesn't mean there is no yeast. Try this out. Buy a gallon of UV pasturized sweet cider. Make sure there is no preservatives. Let it sit out with an airlock. It will ferment or if you don't use an airlock your gallon will explode.

Campden tablets kill wild yeast. It doesn't matter if pasturized or not. If you killed the wild yeast then the yeast you purchased to ferment will control the process. This aids in getting consistent results. Wild yeast can be deliscious but it is extremely unpredictable and my make a good cider...

I believe you may be confused. Cold crashing is used to kill all yeast and stop your SG at your desired sweetness. If you want a sweet cider and want to bottle prime, you have to ferment to dry and then back sweeten with a nonfermentable sugar i.e. Splenda, Lactose, Truvia. Other wise when your...

If you are going to carb off residual sugar, you do NOT want more than 1010 as your final gravity. 1010 will be perfect and allow enough room for safe bottle handling.