Syncing Shared Photo Stream comments to the website

Running Mountain Lion on a new Mac Mini.
I have a shared Photo Stream that a couple people subscribe to but most see from the Public Website. Not all comments that I enter from iPhoto show up on the website. Especially if I delete an original comment and add a new one. Comments from the subscribers are also not showing up on the website though I see them in iPhoto immediately. I am adding the comments to the Photo Stream pics in iPhoto.
Is there a way to force the Public Website to re-sync to the Stream? Several pictures that the new comments didn't show up on I reloaded to the Stream but that puts them to the beginning or end of the stream, depending on where you're looking from. New pictures, with comments, show up immediately but added comments do not. Cycling the Website OFF and back ON doesn't seem to fix the problem.
Any ideas will be appreciated. Thanks.

Photo Stream only uses the file names and what you're changing is the Title, not file name. To get the title to be the file hame you have to export the photo out of iPhoto via the File ➙ Export ➙ File Export menu with the option to use the title as the new file name.
Send a feature request to Apple via http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphoto.html.
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BACKSTORY: My friend took pictures of my family. I want to see the pictures he took. We live about 2.5 hours apart by car. Gas prices are too high for me to just drive down with an external hard drive to get the pictures and I might as well throw my money out the window if I were to ship him a hard drive and he ship it back. SO. I ask him if he would share photos with me and he quickly agreed. He added me to a Photo Stream he has. ok cool. I recieve the invitation email just fine but this is the error I get when I click on the link:
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I don't have any iOS Devices or a mac capable of 10.8. My MacBook is stuck at 10.6.8. It's a late mid 2008 just before the aluminum unibody computers came out. If I had only waited another month... sigh. Murphy's Law is alive and well.
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Hello desert_dweller5,
It sounds like you art trying to access a Shared Photo Stream, but you do not have one of the devices to enable your Apple ID as an iCloud account. The following article provides information on how Shared Photo Streams work:
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486
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Friends and family with iCloud accounts can view your photos in the Photos app on any device using iOS 6 or later; on a Mac in iPhoto 9.4 or Aperture 3.4 or later; on a Windows PC with Windows Vista or later and iCloud Control Panel 2.0 or later installed; or on a second generation or later Apple TV with software version 5.1 or later installed. They can also view your photos on the web if you enable Public Website in the settings or options for your Shared Photo Stream.
Since you do not have an iCloud account and just and Apple ID, your friend can share the photo stream as a public website so that you can view it, as stated in the same article:
Can I share with people who don't have an iCloud account?
Yes. If you enable Public Website in the settings or options for your shared photo stream your photos will be published to a website that anyone can view in an up-to-date web browser.
To be able to change an Apple ID to an iCloud account, you would need an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5 or later or a Mac with OS X Lion v10.7.4 or later as stated in the following article:
Creating an iCloud account: Frequently Asked Questions
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4436
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