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Your getting totally screwed up. ;) I'm not sure what it is your asking but I can see your digging too deep and your just getting confused. Just think of each of the modes (dorian, phrygian...) as individual scales. The only relationship they have with the major scale is they come from the major scale but by starting on a note other than the root. So each mode is a different scale to play with. That's your first step and your basis for understanding modes.