HT4859 Can't access my past Photo Stream pictures...Help!

I understand that iCloud backs up my photos in my Photo Stream to my iCloud account, but I have deleted a user on my iMac and now I can't figure out how to get access to these photos. How do I access those old pics from Photo Stream?
I have tried to add a new user to my computer again and used the same Apple ID, and I have been able to get back about 75 pics. However, I have been adding to this same account for quite some time and there were probably close to 1,000 photos in my Photo Stream. My storage back-up says I have used quite a bit of storage already so I'm thinking that these pictures are safely there, but I just don't understand how to get to them again.
Can someone give me some directions how to access these photos please?? In lay-man's terms please

Your iCloud backup only backs up camera roll photos, not photo stream photos.  Also, photo stream photos only remain in iCloud for 30 days, even though up to 1000 will remain on your devices until you delete them.  The 75 photos you got back were probably the ones from the last 30 days as older photo stream photos are no longer in iCloud.
If you had iPhoto configured to automatically import your photo stream photos to your iPhoto library, they would still be there.  This is done by going to iPhoto>Preferences>Photo Stream and checking Automatic Import.  If this setting is checked in iPhoto, the photos will still be in your events.  If not, they're probably lost now unless you could recover it from a time machine backup.

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