Number of photos in My Photo Stream differ on 3 devices, what to do?

I am under the impression that the number of photos that can be seen in My Photo Stream should be the same, no matter which device I use, as long as I am logged in these devices with the same Apple ID.  Is this assumption wrong?
My wife and I use the same Apple ID, she on a MacBook Pro, I an an iMac and on an iPhone4S. On her laptop there appear close to a 1000 photos (what I would have expected from the Photostream description), but on either the iMac or the Phone I only get some 158 photos.
What do I do wrong, what needs to change to make them synchronized?
Thanks for your help.

Hiya,
I have a slightly more complicated question similar to this one and you seem to be the guru to ask judging from the other posts so here goes:
We have 2 iPhone 4S's (his & hers) an iPad and a (new) iMac in our household. All devices are using the same Apple ID. As far as I am aware (pretty new to apple and V new to mac) the photostream settings are the same on all devices. Here's the problem: photostream has a different number of photos on the devices:
his iPhone: 1000
hers: 345
iPad: 958
iMac: 309
so far, pretty similar to the other issues but here is where it gets even trickier:
When i updated my iPhone (hers) with ios7, it fell over and died. When I rebooted it, all of my photos and videos were gone. So the only place that those photos exist (not videos sadly) is in the elusive photostream. I am terrified to turn photostream off and back on again on any of the devices for fear of losing those photos.
Help??

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