Using the EX2500A LXI-VXI interface in LabVIEW

Not sure if this is bad form or not, but I'm duplicating a post from the VXI forum (it seems very, very dead) and it is also (sorta) a LV issue. I'd normally wait, but sadly I'm on a bit of a time crunch now.
I was wondering if anyone had gotten this to work.
A bit of background: About a year ago, I did have this working, but it was after about a month of messing around. I never did figure out what exactly it was that got it working. A hard drive crash lost my work and configuration.
I have to configure NI-MAX to work with Agilent VISA. NI-VISA (as of 2010) did not support this device.
http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/3B3626D9C1F999218625694200791AD7
The documentation I have found on how to configure NI-VISA inside of MAX does not seem to still hold for MAX 14.0
(http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/3B3626D9C1F999218625694200791AD7)
The EX2400 must be configured as a VXI device, not as a TCP/IP device.
Any help anyone could provide (even if a point in the right direction) would be appreciated. If not, I'll keep messing with it...

Of course I did. And the option it tells you to do in the quick start guide doesn't seem to exist in MAX anymore. They are, in fact, the exact same instructions that I linked in my first post.
Here is what MAX 14 looks like (with both drivers installed) No option to configure VISA.
Edit: Verbage to make me sound less ... terse. Several hours of things not working have made me crochety

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