Photo Stream Behavior Win 7/iCloud

I have 2 iPhones setup exactly the same (pretty sure), one with my iCloud account, the other with my wife's iCloud account.
I've got iCloud/photo stream setup on a windows 7 system, and everything has been working well, but....
Just today i noticed when i cleaned off all the photots from my wife's iPhone (photo stream and camera roll), that all her photo just vanished from the "My Photo Stream" directory on windows.....
This is new behavior as it has never happened before, further more, when i do the same with my phone, the photos stay.
Logged in and out of both of our iCloud accounts on the PC several times, and it always deletes my wife's photos, and never mine.
Is there some sort of setup option that I am missing here?
Odd!

I think I have found the reason for our problems? Photo Stream will only upload photos with a "Date Taken" date higher than the date when you initialised or when you last reset your Photo Stream. So if you are trying to upload older photos it won't work, They should be fresh out of the oven to be Photo Streamed.
I have managed to Photo Stream older pictures by using windows to copy and remove all Properties and Personal Information then setting the Date Taken to todays date before mobing the photo into the Upload folder. Still, it seems a little hit and miss so there's probably something else being checked to validate photos can be Photo Streamed.
So iCloud will move photos between your Windows 7 machine and your iOS5 device but it's a little picky about which ones it will allow. If you can figure out what exactly are the parameters please do tell.

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Log out of iCloud 3.0 and uninstall it.
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Right click on iCloud64.msi and select Install.
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But if you had a previous version of iCloud that was working correctly then I can definitely tell you how to solve the “iCloud Photo Stream is not syncing to my Windows 7 PC” problem. …without even a re-boot.
Log out of iCloud 3.0 and uninstall it.
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Open the Apple folder – not the Apple Computer folder.
Open the Installer Cache folder
In Details view sort on Name
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Right click on iCloud64.msi and select Install.
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HELP! I am a relatively new to the IPhone community. My husband bought me one for Christmas 2013. I have the IPhone 5s . Like many users, I want to be able to back up the pictures I take and or receive on my phone to my computer. I have a Dell laptop running on Windows 7. I downloaded iCloud 3.0 and have the checked off the box next to Photos. I also have Photos turned on in the ICloud settings on my phone. I experienced this problem back in April, where my photos were not syncing to my computer. I contacted Apple Support, and he ran several tests. I took a couple of pictures, and they started syncing. While I was not able to get all of my photos, I had the majority of them and I figured the problem was solved and would continue to sync from there on out.
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2. Go to your Users folder and navigate to the following path: C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MediaStream\
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