Yes your outstanding loan balance and outstanding principle balance are different because of the reasons that you have already mentioned. For an intensive purposes though, your principle balance is whatever your payoff balance for the loan is if you were to pay it off today, which is different from the outstanding loan balance if you were to pay it off when the last payment is due.
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