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I'm confused.

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I'm sure you're aware that you're not alone.

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In Rev 9:1, we have both angels and stars. So why are there 2 names for the same thing? It doesn't make sense.

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Common poetic device. There are a number of places in the Bible where a number of different words are used to refer to essentially the same thing. Check out Psalm 119, the biggest chapter in the Bible; essentially every verse of this huge poem refers to the Law, but it keeps switching the word it uses to refer to it.

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Couldn't Rev 9:1 be saying that the key was given to the 5th angel, not to the star that fell?

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I'm not sure who the key was given to in that chapter.

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Btw, in Rev 1:20 there are seven churches. Doesn't god or Jesus realise that there are more than 7? No, I don't mean 7 individual churches, but mainstream christian faiths.

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In chapters 2 and 3, God wrrites a note to each of seven specific churches in "Asia" (modern-day Turkey). Those are the churches being referred to by "the seven churches". There's a ton of symbolism in that section, as well as literal messages to real-life churches.

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Psalm 119 did my head in. It's too hard to read this early in the morning {no coffee yet}.

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I've never tried to read it in one sitting, and I like the Bible. If you read one section of it, you get the gist, because the whole thing is like that.

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Btw, it's nice to see you admit you aren't sure of an answer. That's not very common around here when it comes to the bible.

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If you're talking about the thing about the key, I just noticed that it's not 100% clear in the English, but it may be more clear in the Greek, which has some odd grammatical rules that I know virtually nothing about.