Why does my name appear on the iCloud account for everyone in my family?

There are four members of my family, and we each have our own Apple ID and password that we use to sign into iCloud. We also use a variety of devices -- iPhone, iPad, Safari on Mac, etc. When any of us sign on to iCloud, we see our own individual photo, but only my (Dad) name! For example, using her laptop, my daughter logs onto iCloud via Safari, using her own Apple ID and password, and then in the upper right hand of the screen there's a small photo of her and then my name! The problem is that we're now sharing pictures via Photo Stream, and when any of us make a comment, it seems that I'm the (only) one making the comment. I already went to the Apple Store and showed the Genius Bar guy what I'm talking about and he had no idea why this was happening or how to fix it. Help please!

Back up all data if you haven’t already done so. Before proceeding, you must be sure you can restore your system to the state it’s in now.
In the Finder, hold down the option key and select Go ▹ Library from the menu bar. From the Library folder, move the following items to the Trash, if they exist:
Application Support/Dock
Caches/com.apple.dock
and move the following item(s) to the Desktop:
Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.dock.*.plist
Preferences/com.apple.dock.db
Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
Here “*” stands for a long string of letters and numbers. Log out, log back in, and test. If you still have the issue, put the item(s) on the Desktop back where they came from and post again. Otherwise, move the items on the Desktop to the Trash and empty.

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