Double Photo Stream entry

When I look at my Albums using the PHOTO icon on my iPhone 4, I have 2 entries for Photo Stream.
One is populated with the images uploaded to Photo Stream and iCloud, the other is empty.
This dual entry doesn't appear any where else, for example if I access my photos to send an image as an SMS attachement, there is only 1 Photo Stream entry.
Anyone else experiencing this ?

I was looking in to this yesterday, and after googeling and testing a bit, I found a solution that at least worked for me.
I remembered when I set up my new iPhone 4s, I put in the wrong iCloud account.
I have two; one on gmail and one on .me. I normally use the .me as my default. But when I set up my phone I set it up with my other account instead. I quickly realized my mistake, and changed over, and didn't think more over it. Except it was annoying to constantly see two photo stream folders.
So what I did.
I deleted my iCloud account (the one associated with .me) completely from my iPhone. Then I set it up again with a new iClound account (associated with gmail), turned on photo stream and took a few pictures. I could see the photos I took being uploaded to the previous empty photo stream folder.
I then deleted my iCloud account from the iPhone, and sat it up again with my original iCloud account.
All the content assosieted with the other iCloud account dissapaed, also the extra stream folder.
Everything seems to be working fine now, and I did not have to waste hours setting the phone up from scratch.

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