IPhoto: re-enabling photo stream every time?

i'm not using aperture (read here that some people are using both and then have problems)
and i've enabled photostreamed on all my devices and sucessfuly synced my photos on my mac.
however, every now and again, (i think every time i reboot) iphoto will ask me again to enable photostream?
isn't the point of it to happen automatically?
thanks everyone
amir

Both my computers do this. I tried to rebuild my library and even re-installed iphoto, but neither fixes the problem. Very frustrating.

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