Ok, Linguistics is still underpowered compared to a lot of the other skills.
Here is my advice. Change into a skill like Scholastics. This skill will represent the ability to pore through old books and find answers to specific questions, and is one of the reasons the Scholar knows so many languages (because many books are written in different languages) and the character is used to muddling out different languages for his research.
This will be contrasted from the Knowledge skills because those skills are broad bases of facts, while the Scholastics skill can be for finding specific questions. So someone who is a vampire hunter is used to poring though old records to find vampires and their weaknesses, but his knowledge of zombies is almost nil.
thats a really good ideal may be it could give ya some pluses for research as well.
ok I know i posted to this now its gone . any how good ideal I would like to see this give a bounes to research myself.
We could even pull from Research skill in the D20 Modern SRD to add to do this.
Research: Researching a topic takes time, skill, and some luck. The GM determines how obscure a particular topic is (the more obscure, the higher the DC) and what kind of information might be available depending on where the character is conducting his or her research.
Information ranges from general to protected. Given enough time (usually 1d4 hours) and a successful skill check, the character gets a general idea about a given topic. This assumes that no obvious reasons exist why such information would be unavailable, and that the character has a way to acquire restricted or protected information.
The higher the check result, the better and more complete the information. If the character wants to discover a specific fact, date, map, or similar bit of information, add +5 to +15 to the DC.
I think it would be important to note that to do research you need rare books and libraries.
I personally wonder if I'm the only one who reads an adventure in it that has rare books about magic or monsters or something. I know that most people see gold pieces when they hear that, but I see secrets and power.