Photostream imports face thumbnails from whole library

Hello,
First time on here as I'm not sure where else to go, have been to my local Apple Store (Manchester) and they couldn't fix ithe problem and then a 2hr call with Apple support, still no joy, case was referred nearly three weeks ago but not heard anything so hear I am..............
I am using iPhoto'11 9.4.3 on a new MacBookPro OSX 10.8.3 with (Photo Library Manager 4.0.8) which I bought to clear out duplicates.
I have been using photostream successfully for ages between my iPhone, iPad and Mac but now I am unable to turn it on as when I do it imports literally hundreds and hundreds of old photos and many of these are thumbnails of all the faces in the photos not just ones that I have used in face recognition.
The Irisg guy I was talking o in support hadn't seen anything like it and set up a test iPhoto library and whilst he was talking this lobrary just grew before his eyes. My original library was approximately 3500 photos but with this it grew to 27,000 mainly composed of random thumbnail images.
Please if you have any ideas could you spell them out in simple terms!
I would really appreciate any help as I now am frightened of turning photostream on.
Many thanks.

Hi,
Thank you for replying, just noticed my awful spelling mistakes, apologies.
Yes, we did this whilst on the support call and the issue was repeated.
SB

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