Photos added to icloud drive from my imac do not sync to my iphone

Hello and thank you in advance for any help you may be able to give. The following three paragraphs are a detailed description, as is the last paragraph, which is just a summary. The rest is a rant, because I have become a very frustrated consumer with a company whose products I once revered. Anyway...
iHave imported photos from my old Powermac to my new iMac and added them to iPhoto and iCloud. iHave enabled iCloud on my iPhone and iMac and within my iPhone have enabled iCloud storage in the photos app. iHave enabled wifi syncing between devices and also have bluetooth turned on.
iHave connected my iPhone to the iMac and synced it after each step of adding photos from my iMac hard drive to iPhoto to iCloud drive.
The photos do not show up in my iPhone's photos as they are supposed to according to how iCloud shares authorized data across enabled devices. The iPhone photo app, which uses the iCloud photo library (and iRealize it's in Beta testing so...maybe that's part of the issue) doesn't have the photos iAdded from my iMac to the iCloud drive via iPhoto. However, they DO show up in the iCloud as Other Documents (via: Settings>iCloud>Storage>Manage Storage>Documents & Data>Other Documents), but they are only listed and are not accessible.
Basically iHave spent many many many hours and dollars investing in an Apple system which iHave been dreaming about since my original 800mHz "sunflower" iMac became obsolete. iContinued to believe that Apple had refined and dialed their sharing simplicity as the years progressed. I was so very excited when iPurchased my iMac and upgraded from my Galaxy S5 to the iPhone 6 plus (which poor forecasting on Apple's part made it a six week fiasco to obtain). I was ready to take advantage of the "across device syncing" simplicity that Apple had promised with iCloud. iHave given almost 6 weeks to a learning curve that should probably only have taken 6 days, and iAm very disappointed in the clunky, unintuitive, rigidity that this system has shown but which iAm now committed to has The fact is that the transition has been anything but simple and iHave begun to feel very frustrated with what is seeming like a half-beta-baked iDea. Why is there not a simple drag-and-drop type function for something as simple as as adding photos from my computer to my phone?
Instructions on the apple care site for specific App iCloud storage management seems to have been written and published BEFORE the final iterations of the iOS 8 were released because the slight difference in the instruction process flow and the actual process flow is enough to make the instructions effectively inaccurate.
So, apologies for the rant. Summary: iWant to add photos from my iMac, running Yosemite, to my iPhone, running iOS8, via iCloud, but it's not working. And I have iCloud enabled across all devices (computer and phone)and apps

Looks like this has been solved by yesterdays IOS8 update - thanks!

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