Photos App Uploads Photos But Doesn't Update

Running the latest version of iOS, though I've had this problem for 3 or 4 months now. I'm using iCloud Photo Library (I'm aware it's still a "beta" feature, but this seems like a fairly prevalent issue and it's a relatively new issue). The Photos app will upload new photos I take with the camera, but it continuously says it's uploading, for instance... if it says that it has 75 photos to upload, I take an HDR picture (because I keep the originals), and it says 77 photos to upload. It will upload them, I know this because my computer downloads them. However, my phone will still say it has 77 photos to upload. My iPhone also, will not download new photos, my guess is because it still thinks it needs to upload 77 photos, and probably just iterates over all the stored photos looking for ones that aren't in iCloud, anyways... it doesn't download new ones (or old ones it doesn't have yet) and it's annoying not knowing how many are left to upload.
I had a theory, that turning iCloud Photo Library off and on again, allowing it to remove all locally stored "optimized" photos in between, would fix the problem. But I didn't want to try that without knowing that it wouldn't delete any photos that might not be uploaded already.
So, summing up...
Will turning off icloud photo library delete any photos that aren't uploaded? Should I perhaps plug it into my computer to import any that aren't already there the old fashioned way?
Any other potential solutions for fixing the problem? I imagine I can't be the only person using the iCloud Photo Library beta who takes several pictures a day (on average).

chuckfletcher,
Did you see something like this?
If tapping the UPDATE button takes you to the Reader's Help screen, Reader must have been automatically updated already.
To check the version number
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Tap Settings.
Scroll down to find Adobe Reader in the left pane.
Select Adobe Reader.
Check the version number.
As of October 11, the latest version is 11.6.3 (100920).

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