Binding margins getting scrambled when using setcounter

Question

I'm writing a thesis and I need to have 4cm inner and 2cm outer margins. I have:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper,twoside]{report}
\usepackage[inner=4cm,outer=2cm,bottom=2cm]{geometry}
\usepackage{setspace}
\onehalfspacing

It does seem to have asymmetric margins, however they are not correctly maintained throughout the document. I can only assume because I have a number of setcounter statements.

For example, the title page has no page number.

The next page is the abstract, and I use

\thispagestyle{plain}
\setcounter{page}{1}
\pagenumbering{roman}

Then I have the acknowledgments, dedication, etc, and they have similar roman numbering that I have defined.

Then I have

\newpage
\dominitoc
\tableofcontents
\newpage
\listoffigures
\newpage
\listoftables

and then for the introduction

\newpage
\pagenumbering{arabic}
\chapter{Introduction}

then the literature review

\newpage
\chapter{Literature Review}
\setcounter{mtc}{2}
\minitoc

and it goes on from there with no more setcounter statements.

I don't remember why I needed that setcounter{mtc}{2} but it's there so it does something. So basically I'm using this so I can have roman numbering before the introduction and then arabic numbering for the introduction onwards, and the first page of the introduction should start at page 1.

I think the odd and even pages are getting confused because I'm changing the page counter. Is there any way to fix this? Maybe decouple what's on the bottom of the page and instead use the page number from the generated PDF?

Thanks.