How do I read an AI and DI channel simultaneously in Daqmx?

I'm trying to do something very simple: read a single AI channel and a single DI channel with Daqmx and display them on a waveform chart. It's not working. I'm doing something wrong and none of the sample codes available in the Knowledge base cover an analog input and a digital input. I'm trying to read continuously at 250 samples per second, align the timestamps and display the result on a waveform chart. The analog data shows up twenty seconds later than the digital data when I get anything at all. Please take a look at my diagram and tell me what is wrong. The device is a USB-6218 running on a laptop running Windows XP and LabVIEW 8.2.
Attachments:
Read Daqmx DI and AI channels.vi ‏24 KB
Align Timestamps.vi ‏15 KB
Daqmx Globals.vi ‏9 KB

Could you provide some actual values for sample rate and number of samples instead of those silly globals? Also, you have nothing to configure the digital timing.
I also don't understand your comment about not being able to find an example. There's one called Multi-Function-Synch AI-Read Dig Chan. It's under Hardware Input and Output>DAQmx>Synchronization>Multi-Function. Try that.

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