Photo Stream of last n months album auto update?

I need (aka really appreciated the convenience of) the ability to automatically share the most recently imported photos with another user on my machine. I've tried a photo stream of the  "Last ☐ Months" smart album that is available in iPhoto's preferences, however the photo stream is not dynamic like the album is. I understand and appreciate the convenience of new iPhone photos being available in iPhoto automatically as a photo stream, so I assumed the opposite would also be true. I don't see where it is and I'm honestly very dismayed at that. If I'm missing how to do this, please do tell. A plugin, maybe? An AppleScript?
Barring that, are there any other options anyone has explored? I've been using iPhoto the last 12 years, but I'm at the point if switching to another workflow. Adobe is WINDOWS style bloat and Google I just don't trust, so their products are a no-go for me.
I can fathom a homegrown solution using Image Capture and shared folders, but I can tell it's beyond my frustration capacity. Not that it would match the old iPhoto sharing. What a waste to throw away such a powerful, useful feature.

i'm sorry but with all of the editorial you failed to actually tell us what the problem is and what you have
my best guess is that you upgraded from iPhoto '09 or earlier to iPhoto '11 although it is impossible to tell from your rambleing
if that is the case then local sharing requires an external disk formatted Mac OS extended (journaled) with ownership ignored
iPhoto: Sharing libraries among multiple users
if that is not what you want please post a simple straight forward statement of what you have, what you want to accomplish and why you can not do it
LN

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