TS3989 where's my iCloud photo storage???

I upgraded to the 50GB storage for my Windows Vista 64bit PC with SP2 expecting to be able to store my photo collection from my pc on there as in other clouds like Adobe's creative cloud. But there is no Photos folder on the icloud page where the other folders for iwork etc are from my ipad. And nothing either in iTunes. I followed all the instructions several times, checked all folder names etc. Images from my ipad photostream appear in the photostream folder. But nothing from my pc appears on the ipad.
There was no warning about any issues like this - have I wasted my money?? Or am I missing something? When I go to my account, only my ipad and ipod show up on there, not my pc?

Try the following:
Go in "Settings" > "iCloud" > "Storage" > "Manage Storage".
Do you see anything under "Backups"? If you can find your device here, tap on it and see when the latest backup occurred. If you want to restore this backup, make sure that your iPhone is well charged and go in "Settings" > "General" > "Reset" > "Erase All Content and Settings". WARNING: This will erase everything you have on your new iPhone!! Once the iPhone restart, make sure that it isn't connected to a computer and connect to your WiFi ans instead of selecting "Use as a new iPhone" select "Restore from iCloud". It could take a while to restore if you had lots of stuff on your phone.
Hope that helps!

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{quote:title=Nissin101 wrote @ 3:36pm EMT:}{quote}
Well I was able to move photos from the camera roll to the photo library by sending *the pictures via email to my dad's blackberry, then saving them to my computer from his phone, then putting them back on into the photo library*.
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{quote:title=Nissin101 wrote @ 4:08pm EMT:}{quote}
Alright I guess that answers my question then. However, just as I said I was able to transfer photos from my camera roll to my photo library, so at least that is possible.
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