Maybe someone here can help me

Rating: Null/10 (4 August 2003)

Hello, I admit that i have just seen the Matrix for the first time, and have not yet seen Reloaded, but I intend to as soon as I think I understand a few things first. Can someone here give some help?
I read the other day here that someone was having problems believing the humans as batteries theory of the Matrix-- to that i would point out that Morpheus notes that this is combined with some special type of fusion. But I dont believe this.
Can anyone tell me why this place Zion shouldnt be thought of as another fake? (a friend said see the next movie, but i hate answers like that). Think about it-- Supposedly no one knows what year it really is, but if Zion had been free ever since the war started, wouldnt EVERYONE there know exactly how long it had been since Zion became the last refuge? IT has mainframe computers, so were not dealing with a purely oral history right?

Two, if you think that the freed ones from the Matrix founded Zion, as Morpheus kinda indicated... HOW did they build a city so deep in the Earth? it would take considerable technology and effort to dig that far, and defend it in peacetime.. how could you do it, and keep the machines from searching for and destroying you?
Second, The machines are able to jump into anyone still hardwired to the matrix.. which is why switch keeps the gun on neo in the car.. and why the old lady throws the knife at him near the end.. also, when SMITH takes over the bum in the trainstation, it shows that at least if they know where to look, the machines can be aware of whats going on.. yet when neo is freed, the machine just dumps his body after removing the connections... why didnt it snap his neck too.. the machines KNOW there are rebels... why let anyone join them.. much less someone the feared morpheus wanted to free...
plus, they clearly knew where to find neo, because the tracer had been removed AFTER he got into the car when going to meet morpheus for the first time... so.. even after, they could still have used whatever power allowed them to sense the old ladies, and the bums awareness of neo at the end of the movie, to use neo to sense SWITCH, TRINITY etc. even if you argue the machines need to have an idea of where to look(which i think is CRAP too cuz of the bum), because the tracer proves they could have known where to find NEO. and therefore known he was "waking to the truth" as it were.
my point is, that maybe the Matrix is a way JUST to pacify people, maybe the world is healed (or was never ruined in the first place) and the they are using the SUN as their input of energy.. thus thermodynamics isnt REALLY being violated..
i came to this on my own, but im sure others have as well.. any serious problems with my reasoning? please explain if you find any... thank you