OK, so I started playing EVE, and I have some questions specifically related to boxing, as well as maybe some tips on how to be successful outside of solo things.

Fleet setup

So, I have 10 ships right now, and my current goal is to get enough money to support them with ISK alone, and never rely on PLEX.

To do this, I have talked with some friends I have made and my Alliance I have joined as to what a good fleet setup would be for a player new to the game, but with 10 ships.

Sentry Drones. Basically, this involves one main ship that runs around painting things from ~50-100km and the 9 alts all drop their sentry drones, and assist the main, which puts out a godly amount of DPS from over 100k, and by the time anything gets in range, its pretty much dead (anomalies and asteroid belt rats anyway) The alts would all have remote shield reps on them for spider tanking with the main, or for repairing the odd drone / alt when needed.

I feel like this is a solid setup for a lot of things, but it will be pretty useless in others. I don't want to give my opinions yet on this since I am less than 2 weeks trained, with less than 1 million skill points, and I know im probably wrong on many things, so I wanted to get some of YOUR opinions for those who have 5+ accounts with some great ideas on how to run them.

Here are some of my questions:

1. Is it better to have a more flexible setup with more traditional ships rather than a pretty specific "drone alt" setup?

2. Will this setup work in PvP.. at all?

3. Would it be better to run a Logi main and let the alts do the tanking with no remote shield reps on them, but instead local shield or armor repair as well as the remote on the logi main?

4. Are 10x stealth bombers or other covert-ops style ships going to be more successful or interesting for multiboxing? if so what should I do for the 6 months it takes to train something like that lol

Any other advice you can give me on the current or new state of the game (with the new xpac only a couple of weeks away)?