Forge keeps duplicating files on startup and confusing my mod folder

[Sylveon]

Hello! first post so if I do anything wrong please correct me so I am adjust properly. Going to try to give you as much information as I can just in case its needed. 1.17.1-forge-37.0.65 is the version causing the trouble for me. I cannot launch in this version of Forge, and I think I know the problem. Each time I launch in version 1.17.1-forge-37.0.8, the 1.17.1-forge-37.0.8 folder in the versions folder will create files and folders. Config, defaultconfigs, logs, mods, resourcepacks, saves, all those folders. And then it will make an options.tex. a realms_persistence.json, and a servers.dat. This means that my mod and resource folder in .minecraft now also have empty ones in this area. And now mods wont load when placed in my .minecraft mod folder, and if I try to place them in the new mods folder made in the versions folder of 1.17.1-forge-37.0.8, the launcher wont launch minecraft. My goal here is to be able to launch forge in 37.0.65, which just outright wont launch mods or no mods, which is confusing and i think somehow connected to this problem.