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How important is having an extensive collection of books for the purpose of answering these questions? What are the rules?

Given its title and the fact that it is related to Complete Divine, I'd guess that this book focuses on characters of any class that are specially devoted to a deity.

Chapter 6 of the Complete Adventurer has rules for that.

If I recall correctly, this spell is supossed to be level 3, and a level 3 "Power word" in the same book should be level 1.

The cover of Cityscape looks great.

If I recall correctly, the Draconomicon has a price for Adamantine in the section about sample hoards.

That is a very good (and interesting) way to explain how such a tool could work, but the problem arises when you use spellcraft in such a way that no magic auras are involved.

Perhaps you are allowing the existence of a masterwork tool related with Spellcraft?

7 from ranks + 3 from skill focus + 2 from magical aptitude + 2 from synergy for 5 ranks in Know (arcana) +6 int (4 base +2 from fox's cunning)

I'd add to this category the "Shrieking Terror"; according to the MM3 they are used sometimes as advance troops by the demodands.

The art looks great. This art gallery has really increased my interest in the MM4, even if I don't like classed critters and spawn of Tiamat very much.

I can't believe they actually answered the question (made in the Wizard's boards) about depopulating the abyss at 5th level.

I think is safe to assume that you can make as many arrows as you could using normal methods with the same quantity of material. I guess this is up to the DM. Personally, I'd say that it is possible to turn iron into steel (if you also have carbon) with a Profession(metallurgy) check. I...

You shouldn't aim for an unhitable AC. As Legildur said, Armor Class isn't meaningless at epic levels, far from it: if an enemy can always hit you, he will start to use fighting defensively, combat expertise, and power attack, in a measure depending on how low your AC is.

Because using combat expertise and fighting defensively gives you a penalty to all attack rolls, and therefore makes you vulnerable to disarms, sunders, and (if you consider grapple checks to be an attack roll) grapples.

I think it depends on the cosmology of the campaign: If you think each world has its own cosmology (IIRC this is the assumption in the Manual of the Planes), then the stats don't matter much since you can just say those are for an alternative cosmology. If you have a myriad of different worlds...

I don't think there is much difference between INT 3 and 9 for short term tactics, I'd say that there is great improvement in strategical thinking and complicated cooperative maneuvers for the later, but not in simple things. IMO the capability to device short term tactics on the fly seems to...

IMHO, the only "problem" with Improved Combat Expertise is that it benefits those without manufactured weapons much more than it does those with them since the penalty to attack rolls applies to disarm checks. Monsters with ICE can be very dangerous.

The composite Longbow is for the bard? Do you remember that bards are usually only proficient with shortbows?

Indeed; most of the time they look better that way, and that broader form seems better fit to support their weight.