ok so its a bit heavy bit its slowly sinking in.......so from all this talk what i can make out is that theres no static way to tell which key a certain progression belongs to.......like you said as this ( f#m D E ) progression can take off in any direction depending on the resolving chord. this makes it clear.....it can be either the A major scale if i resolve the progression that way (using the A note) or take it to some other scale altogether.

Does this actually mean that keys for modes can not necessarily exist independently and they ultimately resolve back to their mother scale (the ionion) and are hence named after the ionion modes first note?

like this ( f#m D E ) if left in this form could be called the key of f#m.....BUT would ultimately depend on how the tonic is established, thus giving the key its name?

Hope im not dragging it a bit too far :o