bde,
That is odd that VB stopped working with your boards. The successful test panels in MAX indicate boards are working fine and driver is installed successfully. You mentioned the application stopped working correctly after you added some code. What happens if you remove your changes? Another thing to try would be to open up a shipping example and run that. If that works, then you may have inadvertently broken your application. If you haven't used these examples before they will be located in the following location:
C:\Program Files\National Instruments\NI-DAQ\Examples
I hope this helps. Reply if you are still having problems.