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No! There is only one way that throwout bearing/slave cylinder can go in.

If you've got a solid pedal then it is in and working.
If you can shift the shifter into gears while the engine is running and there is no grinding.....and you are positive you can feel the shifter clicking into gears, then the most likely cause is a burned up clutch.

The clutch smell you are used to is organic, smells sort of like burned out breaks. You have a spec stage II clutch that is made of kevlar. That wouldn't smell the same.

Someone posted on here that if some kind of oils or fluid gets on the kevlar then it will burn out fast.
Sounds to me like the tranny needs to come out and the disc be inspected.