My tablet and me...(tablet is a genius f-610)

Question

Ok so a while back I bought a Genius g-pen f-610. I know its not the best tablet out there but it was cheap and large and looked like a good deal. I got home installed everything, and then barely used it for a while thus I never noticed the things it was doing to my system. I've gotten into using it more and bugs have formed that are making this thing unusable. The least annoying of these things is a semi constant pop up talking about usbattablet.kext being installed improperly and thus being unusable. I could deal with this if it weren't for the fact that the tablet is glitchy as all get out. For instance, if I plug it in to the computer, then unplug it then plug it in again, it doesn't function correctly (only registers clicks and after a moment the pen stops moving the mouse pointer, among other things), then when I unplug it again it breaks something inside mac OS that takes away my ability to click on things. So while the mouse moves, it does nothing else. I cannot click on menus or even click to shut the machine down. This stays until I shut the machine off and turn it back on and if I think that perhaps it can be fixed by a log out and try that the glitch persists even to the log in screen. Then occasionally it will cause finder to crash in such a way as to force me to do a hard reboot. I would normally insist that these were all problems of a machine that needed to be reinstalled or something like this and not related to the tablet at all except that they are issues that only happen after the tablet has been plugged in. If I don't use my tablet for a week, the computer runs without instance for that whole week, moment I plug in the tablet the thing gets ****** at me. So does anyone have any suggestions? I've tried a permissions repair, and a disk repair, and I'm prepared to do anything but reinstall os 10.6.4...

Answer 1

Photo stream photos are not backed up, and when you delete them from one device, they are also deleted from iCloud and your other devices.  If they were in your camera roll when you last back up you device, restoring the backup should recover them.  Otherwise, they are, unfortunately, gone.
Also, photo stream photos don't use any of your iCloud storage so deleting them won't free any storage up in your account.
You can't really use iCloud to back up your photos.  It's designed to stream them to your devices and share with others, not to back them up.  In fact, photo stream photos only remain in iCloud for 30 days.  In order to back up your photos, import them to your computer while they are still in your camera roll, as explained here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4083.  Or, if you have a Mac that is signed into your account with photo stream enabled, and you are using iPhoto '11 9.2.2 or later, go to iPhoto>Preferences>iCloud and check Automatic Import.  This will ensure that your photo stream photos are automatically imported to your iPhoto library where they will be safe (especially if you are using Time Machine to back up your Mac).