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Collections are a way for you to organize kata so that you can create your own training routines. Every collection you create is public and automatically sharable with other warriors. After you have added a few kata to a collection you and others can train on the kata contained within the collection.
Get started now by creating a new collection.
I believe this has to do with the execution order of code blocks when you submit your solution. The way I see it, the order goes from Preloaded -> Your solution -> Kata's test fixture. It seems that your own test fixture gets its own environment, unaffected by the Preloaded code block.
Yes, it is disabled. I'm not sure why it would be enabled when you're running your own tests. Sounds like a site bug to me.