Connecting onto motherboards

Got 2 questions for anyone who will answer.
1) First off I have an Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe motherboard. I have a case fan from a Raidmax case. I want to connect it to my motherboard, but there only seems to be one place for it to plug into. I have a male connection on my board labled "EZ_PLUG". Is this the correct place to connect it? And my case fan has 2 4 pin plugs on the end of the wires. Which one do I hook up to what connecter?
My second question.
2) Involves cold cathode lights. The connecters on these are 3 pin female plugs. I have several male places to plug them in. They are labled. "Cpu_fan"( I have a cpu fan that will plug into this) "power_fan", "NB_Fan", "SB_Fan", & "CHA_Fan".
Could I plug the cold cathodes into any of these plugs? I dont plan on haveing the ccfl respond to sound or anything. Just need steady light from them. Also do I need to use the inverters with them, or can I directly hook them up to the board from the ccfl?
Buddy of mine tells me to not hook up to mothrboard whenever possible. To hook straight up to the powersupply. So I dont use up too much power that should go to the CPU. To me it seems like overkill to connect a ccfl straight to the power supply.
Thanks

the fan can plug into the 3-pin connectors on your mobo if you want it controlled by that, if your fan has the 4-pin connector you need to plug it into the PSU for no speed control or get a separate fan controller, or use a 4-pin to 3-pin adapter to hook it up to the mobo (if you don't have one just grab a splitter and splice it on, its simple)

the ccfl probably runs with the of a power brick, generally the power brick has a 4-pin connector, and a 3-pin connector, the 3-pin takes the ccfl and the 4-pin gets power from the PSU, don't plug it into the mobo as IIRC they are usually not DC devices and usually require a very high voltage (unless the power brick is integrated)

and IIRC, the EZ plug on there is for the PSU, that board was produced before they came out with the 6-pin PCIe power plug, so it uses a 4-pin, but check the mobo manual just be be sure before plugging anything into it