They won't promote until July, after the US leg of the tour is done. They have several showcases and fanmeets scheduled for late July and early August.
Marshmallow is just a pre-release/b-side from the album.
It really depends on the song and who's involved.
They've mentioned both before: sometimes that they get a demo of the instrumental and write lyrics to it, or that they come up with the lyric concept and the melody is written to fit.
For example, Jihyo mentioned that she wrote the lyrics to...
That's my understanding yes.
But also, lyrics are much more than just text. The message has to make sense, the words have to flow well over the melody, etc. It's a longer process than we think and goes through a lot of iterations.
Keep in mind some of this may be translation help, or making things flow better. For example, I doubt JYP wrote the lyrics to Do Not Touch in Japanese at first. He probably wrote what he wanted to say in Korean, and then Mayu Wakisaka helped with getting it over to Japanese and having it still...
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