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Also, I'm going through a book on EPUBs and notice that in this book the Guide section shows every page (with multiple pages having a type of "text") just like the video I watched on this (totally different authors).
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I've never cracked open any commercially produced ePub and seen all of the xhtml files represented with reference elements in the guide section of the opf. Nor have I seen ePubs where multiple xhtml files were tagged with the text semantic, in the wild. I could be wrong, of course, but that's ePub anyway and not mobi. So it doesn't really have much to do with why it will/won't work for generating mobi files.
But if you're creating mobi's for the Kindle, there's just no reason to have anything in the guide section of the opf file that doesn't have to do with the TOC, Cover or Beginning. Because those are the only options that the Kindle interface provides from the "Go To" menu (besides being able to directly enter a location number).
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and ultimately I still don't really get how to mark the first page for Kindle
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If you're using Kindlegen to build the mobi, the "start" <reference> or a single "text" <reference> whose href attribute points to an xhtml file (or an anchor within an xhtml file) in the guide section of the opf file will be converted to the proper "Start reading" record in the resulting mobi (there may be others as Harry has mentioned, but I only know what works for me). But you have to be feeding the opf file or the epub file to kindlegen, not producing the mobi from an html file.