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It's helpful to think of booting the OS as two distinct booting steps, one which boots Clover, and one which boots your OS. Your OS can be on any logical partition of any disk, and Clover is typically in the EFI partition of a physical disk. You can boot clover off the EFI partition of your Windows physical disk, and boot macOS off it's logical partition, and any combination thereof. Your BIOS controls where you boot Clover from, or you can override it typically with F12. When we install macOS we typically create a USB key and install Clover there, then boot off it until we install Clover to the EFI partition of the macOS physical disk. In a single physical disk environment it's very easy, there's just one EFI partition and you can't confuse anything mostly. With more than one physical disk (USB key is considered a physical disk) you can potentially boot Clover from any physical disk. And technically you can install Clover to the EFI partition -OR- to the non-EFI partition, so for all anyone knows you could have two (or more! one per logical partition!) on each physical disk.
So, when you think you've installed a particular version of Clover but the Clover control panel reports a different version, you don't understand which Clover you're booting, or the disk has a Clover installed in the non-EFI partition and your BIOS is not set up to boot EFI. Investigate your BIOS to understand which physical disk it's booting. Temporarily use F12 to override. Double check that there is no non-EFI-installed Clover on any logical partition.
Hopefully this is taken as helpful. I'm not trying to tell you your business.
well said.