It was working. I took some photos this morning and shake reduction was in effect. I spent 1/2 the day getting acquainted with my new K-x, took some photos but spent most of the time reading the manual. I am noticing that I cannot use shake reduction. In the status screen, the icon has a line through it and it's greyed out. Thus, I cannot select the icon/item and enable it. This is in Auto Pict or Sv. I didn't jostle the camera, certainly didn't drop it and absolutely nothing occured to it that should/could have effected its ergonomics. I bought the camera (2 lens kit with the 55-300mm) through Amazon on July 18 and received it on July 26. Is it defective?
Edit: Whoa! Now it's in effect. I tried something that may have affected the setting.

I bought a cheap remote off ebay for 3 bucks and wanted to test it today to see if it worked. I set the camera to respond to the remote. Does that disable shake reduction? Does the setting persist? I had the camera set for high burst mode, and it's been like that for a couple of weeks. I just changed that to single shot and shake reduction is back on. Why is this?

Is there maybe a bug in the firmware? This sequence of events doesn't make sense. I guess you have to reset the Drive Mode, make another adjustment to it to reenable SR. Seems odd. Having set the camera to respond to remote did not prevent it from taking photos using the shutter button...