IPhoto photo stream won't work

Since iPhoto was updated in December, my iphoto library somehow became corrupted, crashed and wouldn't open. I've had lots of attempts at trying to find out what was wrong as this only affected the iphoto on my macbook pro.  My ipad & iphone are both working fine.  Eventually, after several attempts at trashing the library, rebuilding databases, repairing permissions etc, I eventually gave up and extracted all the original photos from the files and saved them in a separate file.  I then trashed the iphoto library altogether and also the software and left it for a while.  Then I installed my iphoto library from a saved backup file from last year before I had a problem and also installed a fresh copy of the software from the App store.  This is now working but I still can't get the iphoto stream to work in icloud.  I can switch the photo stream on and off in system preferences but in the iphoto preferences the tick box just won't stay ticked!!  So I still can't stream my photos - most of which I take with my iphone and really miss the feature of having syncronized photos on all my devices. 
I'm really pulling my hair out on this one and am at my wits end!! I really don't know where to go from here & have tried just about everything.  It's very nice having Iphoto displaying all my photos, but they're all now old and I want it to display all my new photos too.  Please can someone out there help me?? I'd be so grateful to get this wretched problem sorted.  Thank you very much!!

Try the following:
1 - delete the iPhoto preference file, com.apple.iPhoto.plist, that resides in your
     User/Home/Library/ Preferences folder.
2 - delete the contents the following folder:
User/Library/Containers/com.apple.iPhoto
3 - reboot, launch iPhoto and try again.
NOTE: For Mavericks, 10.9,  go to your Home folder and use the View ➙ Show View Options menu to bring the this window:
where you can check the Show Library Folder checkbox.
OT

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