Man... you guys have either totally lost me or totally misunderstood the question.
You've gone off in some direction that I don't have a clue what your talking about.
Think baby steps here. Something intended to teach somebody brand new to theory who's been playing for many years.
I'm trying to figure out what the names of things are, simple as that.

1) Aolian, Dorian, Phrygian etc... as seperate entities, what are they called? (modes? scales?)

2) When you get a whole 'group' of them together, what are they called? (a scale? a mode?)

3) Are there always seven of those aolian type things in a full group of them?