Difference between Compendium Drop and Token Page Drop

Hi all.   I'm a bit of a noob but have signed up to a premium account recently and have already successfully put some API's into my games along with some great new macros. I have a question relating to monsters and their tokens. When you purchase an official module, they all come with a token page which allows you to drop your monsters into maps (I completely rebuild maps using inkarnate and don't use the ones that come with the purchase).  My question is, why - when doing a compendium drop, does that monster appear in the top right of the journal where all your player characters are when dropping from the token page doesn't? Many thanks 

When you drag from the compendium, it does two things: 1) import the creature into your game as a character in the journal, and 2) create a token representing that character on the map page. It should only do the first step for creatures not already in the journal, but it wouldn't surprise me to learn there are cases that double up.  The tokens page is a good way to survey what creatures are included in the module, and make adjustments to all of them in one place (probably with an API script like TokenMod). All the tokens there should have Characters in the journal already, usually sorted into reasonable sub folders. Generally, you'd drag those characters from the journal to the map to create new tokens on maps. 

Thanks Aaron.  That now makes more sense :)