[BitTwiddler]

I just figured out the problem. Bad assumptions on my part.

What we were doing was creating and naming a control on the custom tab of the dashboard then going into the dashboard's block diagram and wiring it to a WPI NT Write VI. That step is superfluous and would just confuse the robot. All we needed to do was carefully read and follow the instructions on the custom tab.

In other words all we had to do is create the controls/indicators and give them names then go to the robot and use the WPI NT Read/Write VIs with those names.

Arrgh! I've agonized for hours over this simple mistake. I really thought we had to have complementary NT Reads/Writes on both the robot and the dashboard.