The picture says it all. Searching their site for change lead or cover picture for a set showed me that the problem I was having occurred innumerable times and the masters at Flickr keep closing the conversation for lack of interest (can you say marketing doublespeak?)
Note the grimace or flawed false happiness of their cartoon visages.
I haven't been this angry in a while. Must be PMSing, yes.
Oh, p.s., the naïve user(s) who says trash it all and start over (said in multiple conversations) is right.