When restoring new iPhone 4S from old iPhone 3GS, Siri is gone

OK. so I brought home my new iPhone 4S. I plugged it in and answered the questions, the synced it. Nice, apps are there but no data. OK. so get online, figure out that I need to restore from the backup of my previous phone to get my data. So I do that. Sweet, data is there, looks just like the iPhone 3gs. Well, to much like the iPhone 3GS. Siri appears to not be on the phone. I'm thinking, sync the phone. Return the phone to factory default, then sync it back. Will that work?

To be clear...make sure you go into Settings/General, not just 'Settings'.
Like a tard, I made this mistake and was looking for Siri a level up from where she was.

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