Removing "Deleted Photos to Remove" from Flickr Photostream

Question

Some time ago I had uploaded one collection of photos through Flickr photostream.
Tonight I set up a second collection to upload. I edited the connection to change from "Public" to "Family and Friends" for this upload. It asked me whether to change previous photo permissions or not. At first I said yes. Then I thought it over, especially after a popup box told me that all ratings and comments would be deleted since I had a free Flickr account. Given that, I decided not to change them. So I went into the Flickr photostream window in LR4 (I have not yet published) and when I saw all the previous photos there to be republished, I selected them and deleted them, to avoid having them re-uploaded.
Unfortunately, it didn't have that effect. It put them in a group called "Deleted photos to Remove." I don't want them removed from Flickr. But I can't seem to get them out of this category so I can publish the new photos without removing them. How do I get rid of these images from this window so they won't be removed from Flickr when I upload the new images? Thanks.
grits5

Answer 1

Your response is extremely helpful. I began to understand that apparently I was in fact mixing Flickr & LR terminology, even though I didn’t realize it. Given that, you did a remarkable response. I can see that before going further, I need to clear up definitions and terminology.
As background, in the simplest terms I’m thinking of a collection as a catalog section that contains pointers to images (actual or virtual copies) as well as relevant metadata. With that, here’s what I see.
Publish Services Panel. Seems to be only an organizational tool for the program interface.
Publish Service. Hard Drive, Facebook, and Flickr seem to be examples of Publish Services. However I can right-click on Flickr and create another published service on Flickr. So what is a Publish Service, exactly, and why would you want more than one Flickr Publish Service? Perhaps because each Publish Service has its own set of parameters, meaning you could set one Flickr service to Public Sharing and another to Friends and Family. Or you could have different settings for export to Hard Drive? Or, you could set up to publish to an entirely different Flickr account? I’m guessing a Publish Service is simply code/parameters tailored uniquely to each place where you may want to publish?
Photoset. Because initially I right-clicked on the Flickr Publish Service and had the option to create a Photoset or Smart Photoset, I thought Photoset was a LR term connected with the Publish function. I now see if I right-click on Facebook, I get a different set of options – create Collection or Smart Collection. So probably Photoset is a Flickr term, not a LR term? (I’ve used Flickr very sparingly to this point.) I see why that led to confusion.
Publish Connection. Going to Publishing Manager allows me to set up a Publish Connection within the Publish Service. Oddly, when I do that, it seems to set up a second instance of the Publish Service. I’m tempted to think, therefore, that a Publish Service is the specific code tailored uniquely to where I want to publish, and the Publish Connection are the parameters used with that specific instance of the Publish Service?
Collection or Photoset. If I click on a collection under Facebook, or a Photoset under Flickr, I see the relevant photos in the grid, divided into the appropriate categories. (Is this what you mean by Publish Window?) So, what am I looking at? I thought I would be looking at a collection (regardless of what Flickr or Facebook might call it). I would have thought of it as a Publish Collection (pointers to images contained in it, metadata as to the update status of those images, etc.). Based on your comment above, I gather that’s not the case. You say I’m looking at output. I’m not sure what output means in this context. If it’s not a collection, is it a set of images generated on the fly based on the collection? If that’s the case, where do I see the actual Publish collection or smart collection?
Well, that's far more than enough for one post, but I bit the bullet and included it since it was all related. I'll let other items wait since right terminology and defintions are fundamental. I appreciate your help with what for me has been one of the most cryptic parts of LR, and one which is not dealt with in any depth in any of the LR books I have.
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