ICloud Photos will not sync with iPhone4s

So, I just left the Genius bar where we needed to a due a full reset of my iPhone4s. 
Before the hard reset of my phone, I had 318 photos on my iPhone photostream and 319 in camera and all were backed up to iCloud.  Due to numerous reasons, Apple does not want me to restore my phone settings from the back-up version saved on my computer, so I must recreate the best I can. 
The biggest issue I am having is, we checked to make sure I back up to icloud before we did a full reset of the phone. After the reset and at the Genius bar, we checked to make sure the photos were starting to download.  However, only 39 photos downloaded.  And now I can't get the remaining photos to sync from iCloud.
I think what happened is the phone was plugged in to the airbook for the reset, we saw photos downloading (and thought, phew that worked) unplugged the phone to complete the rest of the phone set up. And some how they stopped downloading mid stream.  
If you go to iCloud back-up option it's scary...states it will DELETE all photos from iCloud and back-up with what is on your phone.  In my case, I need what's in iCloud to my phone.
If no-one has a suggestion, I am going to restore my phone to my 'bad' back-up, make sure they are saved on a hard drive, and then go back to the genius bar for a full reset.
PS:  Why can't I see my photos in iCloud???

Again, thank you for the replies.  Here is the update to my situation. 
After your suggestions, I did a complete restore to my iPhone4s from the backup version saved on my computer harddrive.  It only yielded 295 photos.   I was able to download the photos from the back-up to my computer hardrive, so I know they are safe!!  Then I called Apple and asked how do I get the 39 photos hijacked in iCloud to stream to my phone.  And I was told if I was very patient, they would download to my phone overnight.  And in the morning all of the photos would be there.  Patience, not my strong point, but for the sake of my photos I was! 
Any bets to if they are on the phone or not????  
Well they are not, so I quickly learned, that another issue unbeknownst to me, is iCloud has not been working...whether this is a software, carrier or other issue, who knows.  Its not working.  And the 295 photos in my phone right now will not stream to iCloud!   The only photos being sent to iCloud are those from the last hard reset made in July (39 photos). 
So I called Apple again, they are most, most, most confident the 37 (I deleted two yesterday) will download to my phone after I reset and establish my iPhone as new.  I told the only way to delete photos from iCloud is do press the setting in the iCloud app online.  
It really stinks that the 295 on my phone will not stream to iCloud.  I guess in the grand scheme it appears I'll have all of my photos, but they will never be joined together in iCloud or on my iPhone.
I'll do a reset tonight and see if I can't the 37 iCloud photos to stream.
Please learn from my lesson.  iCloud / photostream doesn't always work.  Complete frequent hard back-ups of your phone so this too doesn't happen to you.  
BTW - The Apple Genius/Supervior I spoke to gave me her contact information (email and voicemail) to contact her directly if I have any other issues.  Wow, that's amazing! 

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