Dave,
Can you give me some more details about the problem? How are communicating with the FP-1000, are you using Fieldpoint object or OPCClient connected to Fieldpoint OPC? What errors are you getting in the alarm window? In the mean time, please go through this tutorial if the problem you have is related to this link.
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/conceptd.nsf/webmain/4d7492f3db23d2e086256b5a0072d8f9
http://ae.natinst.com/operations/ae/public.nsf/web/searchinternal/b71a4b6053e3cee2862568070062cf90?OpenDocument
Regards,
Ame G.
National Instruments