Reading COM port I/O comma delimated data

Let me start by stating I am completely new to LabView. I am using it for an Engineering Design Course in college in order to collect and analize data being sent from a Silicon Laboratories C8051 Micro-Controller. I am currently using a hyperterminal to see the data that the Micro-Controller is sending. Currently I am just using a printf() statement in the micro-controllers code. The settings at the moment are:
Baud Rate - 57600, Data Bits - 8, Parity - None, Stop Bits - 1, Flow Control - 1. So specifically I would like to take this data and just archive it so I can then later plot it. The data coming in is just intergers in comma delimated form. I went to a breif LabView tutorial and the person told me how to use the VISA i/o functions but I didn't have LabView 7.1 until now. Any help on how to set up the COM port and display the data right now like a hyperterminal would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks

In the NI Example Finder I went to Hardware I/O -> Serial -> Basic Serial Write and Read.vi and I get an error message over and over and the pop up box says:
"Error -1073807202 occurred at Property Node in VISA Configure Serial Port (Instr).vi->Basic Serial Write and Read.vi
This Error code is undefined, No one has provided a description for this code, or you might have wired a number that is not an error code to the code input."
I tried changing the VISA setup options and at one point instead of 8 instances of the error I got it down to 4 but that was one time only. Does anyone know what this error is talking about?

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