Several questions

This site is awesome.  I just found you guys today and I had to sign up and ask some questions.  A bunch of mine have already been answered by reading previousl posts, but some of my questions I have not been able to find either an answer or clear answers.  Hopefully somebody will be able to help me out.  First thing is to let you know what I am doing because this may help you answer the question.  I am building a custom center console out of fiberglass, I know how to do this, and I am going to be building into the console a switch panel for off road lights and other stuff.  I am also going to be building in a three outlet cigarette adapter into the console as well.  So here are my questions:

1)  The cigarette adapter comes with an internal fuse.   I however want to run the lights and the cigarette adapter to a aftermarket fuse panel.  What fuse panel would you recommend I get and should I run power directly from the battery or off the inside fuse panel in my truck?  Also is there anything else I should put in line with the wires.  My off road lights have relays, but do I need to add some more before or after the fuse panel?

2)In regards to the cigarette outlets that I mentioned above how would I go about hard wiring them into my truck instead of plugging it into the dash outlet?  I am wanting to keep as little wires as possible from crossing all over the place in plain view in the cab.

3) I currently only have my amp wire coming off of the battery.  I am going to be adding a lot more electrical stuff to my truck.  I want to keep the engine bay as clean as possible.  Is there such a thing that I can run one power line to a "box" that I could then run multiple lines off of that?  If so where would I get something like that or are there some you would recommend me using.  I think this is something I should do since I do not want a bunch of wires coming off of my battery. 

I realize this is a long post, but I feel that these three questions are interlinked.  Thank you in advance.