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I have some questions regarding the Combat Scabbard:
1) Can the Combat Scabbard be enchanted?
2) Can I take Weapon Focus(Combat Scabbard)?
3) Does the improvised quality make it count as an improvised weapon in regards to feats and abilities?
4) If I have the "Hurl Scabbard" equipment trick, can I enchant a Combat Scabbard with ranged weapon properties?
5) Can a Combat Scabbard be made of Special Materials?
I have some questions regarding the Combat Scabbard:
1) Can the Combat Scabbard be enchanted?
2) Can I take Weapon Focus(Combat Scabbard)?
3) Does the improvised quality make it count as an improvised weapon in regards to feats and abilities?
4) If I have the "Hurl Scabbard" equipment trick, can I enchant a Combat Scabbard with ranged weapon properties?
5) Can a Combat Scabbard be made of Special Materials?
Combat Scabbards are weapons; improvised ones, but yes, they can be enchanted as weapons. If you don't want to deal with the whole "Improvised Weapon" thing, just make it a Sharpened Combat Scabbard.
Again, a Combat Scabbard is listed as a primary weapon that you can use, meaning yes, you can get a Weapon Focus feat related to it.
A regular Combat Scabbard would count for Improvised Weapons, as it is classified as an Improvised Weapon due to the Improvised weapon feature, meaning that if you don't have the Improvised Weapon feat for it, you will suffer proficiency penalties.
Any melee weapon can be treated as a ranged weapon, though again, it is improvised, and it is classified as a thrown weapon when you use that trick, so some "ranged" qualities may not be applicable to it. (Whether this will take another feat, I don't know, but I doubt it.)
Any Combat Scabbard can be made out of a special material; it is usually made out of a wood base, meaning that Combat Scabbards would use Wooden Special Materials. I don't know about a Sharpened Combat Scabbard, though I would rule that it is still primarily wooden, and thusly can still only use wooden materials.
In regards to your Monk question, it wouldn't have to be changed since it is an Improvised Weapon normally, and the conversion only works on standard weaponry. Thusly, it would function as is. It would still be an Improvised weapon either way, but the Bonus Feats would still upgrade its damage from 1D6 to 1D8 at the respective level.
A Combat Scabbard is made of wood?
I am not sure that is listed.
Are there not scabbards made of leather, or steel?
It isn't, but it would make sense for a standard Combat Scabbard to be listed as such. A Sharpened Scabbard description says that there is a sharpened blade at the edge of the Scabbard, indicating that a Scabbard is either normally not made of steel, or that part of it is steel (the slashing part), which still means that it is not primarily made of metal.
Honestly? I could be wrong. Generally Scabbards were made of wood, or with leather and metal studs to secure the weapon.
Further reading, scabbards were made of leather, wood, and metals such as brass or steel.
That, more or less, allows them to be made of any of the special materials available.
Metals usually weren't a primary material for crafting the scabbards, whereas wood and leather were. Generally, most materials would specify that you cannot use special material effects to an item that is not primarily made out of that material.
It's pretty much a GM call at that point, since the book does not state what the scabbard is or is not mainly made out of.
I'm stunned that they gave it an 18-20 crit. That hasn't been errata-ed, has it?
It has been, sort of: The Adventurer' Armory Errata (http://paizo.com/download/pathfinder/PZO9410_Errata_072111.zip) does not have a line correction for it, but republishes the weapon table at the end, which lists it as crit "x2".
So the errata changed that.