For your question 1), use 60 x 60 gel tray for most application, for Southern blot, genomic DNA digestion, mapping, or Northern blot, use 120 x 120 gel tray.
For your question 2) you don't need to make dilution of PCR reactions, take one third or a quarter of PCR reactions, mix with loading buffer to load the sample to each 20-25 ul well on the gel.
For your question 3), you need to figure out what is wrong with your calculation. To make 50 X TAE, you need to add 100 ml of 0.5 M EDTA stock.