IPhoto Photo Stream turns off on launch

Every second or third time I open iPhoto and click on the photo stream tab there are no pictures there. I then have to enable photostream (again) and the pictures download.
How can I keep the photo stream enabled so I don't have to repeatedly download my pictures?

Are we the only ones who have this annoying problem?
And did you ever hear from anyone at Apple?
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1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
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