Charlie.
1. If it was a Sephardic/Chassidic shul you should have agreed to say “yatzzmach porkenei” and afterwards told them that your intention was “lo yatzmach porkenai”.
2. There was a case in Jerusalem, when Ashkenazic cohanim also duchan every day, where someone suddenly stopped after 25 years. He explained that when he made aliya there was a storm at sea and he made a neder that if Hashem would bring him to EY safely he would be a cohen for 35 years. In Persia many Jews made themselves cohanim because priests of any religion were exempt from the draft. So what do we do about pidyon haben?
3. Mi shenitma nitma. No one knows what happened in his ancestry ages ago.
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