Wrong name displayed in Shared Photo Stream on iPhone/iOS 6

I invited my wife to a shared photostream and MY name shows up when she comments on a photo. It might be that she's using what used to be MY phone. Here's what we did in our upgrade to iOS 6 and the iPhone 5.
I got the new iPhone 5 and passed the old 4S to my wife.
1) I backed up her old iPhone 4,
2) I reset the 4S (iOS 6) and restored from her old 4's backup.
3) Sent her an invitation to the photo stream, she accepts, posts, and it displays MY name.
4) Discovered on her phone that "My Info" under Settings-->Mail...-->Contacts was pointed to MY contact on her phone, not her own. Fixed that.
5) Removed her from the photo stream, re-invited, still shows my name.
Could Apple be associating a Device ID with a name at the server level? How do I fix this?

Hi all, after a view hours trying to resolve this I have found the answer to photo stream sender name issues.
iPhoto will display the name associated with your apple ID.
I logged onto "manage my apple ID" and found my wife's apple ID was registered to me and not her
It took 5 seconds to resolve - simple really
https://appleid.apple.com/uk/

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I found the answer in an other thread: it cannot be corrected. Apple takes the user name from the credit card in iTunes.
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