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PBM prevents AoOs against you it does not allow you to threaten another individual with a ranged weapon thus no AoOs with ranged weapons or flank bonus.

An archer wearing a spike gauntlet (I know) does threaten and thereby can flank but only for purposes of attacks and AoOs with the spike gauntlet.

You can't threaten with one weapon and then take it with a non-qualifying weapon.

Zen Archer gets Reflexive Shot shortly after getting PBM. This lets them make AoO's with a bow & arrow in any square they threaten with an unarmed strike.

Depending how you interpret that, the feat could either be specifically for the ability to make AoO, or opens up the ability to threaten with a bow within your range of unarmed strikes.

If I had to make a call, I'd go with Ultimate Combat.

It was out after the Core Rulebook. The only bit of the Core Rulebook that was out after Ultimate Combat was the erratas, but the erratas are more error corrections of what they caught so far than new final editions.

I've been doing some reading and I came across some alternate stats for a few things such as weapons and vehicles.

For the weapons, I found a few things with differences in damage dice, crit multipliers and ranges, and weight. I figured just go with the more recently published book.

As for Vehicles:

Galley costs 30,000 gp in the Core Rulebook
Then 10,000 gp in Ultimate Combat
both descriptions are about the same except Ultimate Combat's being more detailed, and with a non-rowing option.

Keelboat costs 3,000 gp in the Core Rulebook
Then 13,000 gp in Ultimate Combat.
The only major difference is carrying capacity. The expensive one can carry 40-50 tons, and the expensive one can carry 1,000 lbs. A difference of 39.55 tons. Between the two, the cheaper version can carry more weight, which makes no sense since it should be a property that increases it's value, not decrease.

If I go by the publication date idea...
Core Rulebook 1st Print -> Ultimate Combat -> Core Rulebook 5th Print

Ultimate Combat came between the different erattas of the Core Rulebook, but the Core Rulebook never modified the prices of the two vehicles.

I was looking into Gauntlet use as a potential for applying a material type to my Monk's unarmed strikes such as Mithril/Silver/Adamantine. Would this be doable, or are monk's penalized in the capability of having no material type in their unarmed strikes. Their Ki-pool allows them to become magic & lawful eventually.

Yeah, I think he was adding the -2 for two weapon with the -4 for two-handed weapon.

OK, so traditionally flurry of blows is as follows for melee:

to hit = Monk Level - 2 Penalty + Mods(Dex/Str)

Now, we go to the Zen Archer who can use this with a Bow. The issue I came across is whether or not your take the penalty for your multiple attacks for it being a two-handed weapon.

As the DM ruled for me:
Level 1 Zen Archer with 18 Dex

to hit = Monk level(1) - 2 Penalty + Mods(+4) - 4 two-handed weapon penlaty (comes to -1). So, this is a total of a -6 penalty just to shoot this way. Is this correct? Or does the ability to do it with a bow over ride that rule?