Okay, did all that. No help. The search did not turn up the most recent photo stream. Logged out of iCloud (pain in the a@# because I have documents stored there), turned off photo stream in iPhoto, logged back in, turned on again, and Photostream repopulated iPhoto in exactly the same way as before (i.e., no event--but photostream in the left nav column). Only thing I noticed is a little wireless icon in the photos in photostream. Here's a picture:
See the little wireless icon in the bottom left corner? Here's another picture:
There is no Nov. photostream event. WHY????? Do I actually have to plug in my device? I thought the purpose of Photostream was....