Actually if you want to try LabView (and I highly encourage you to do this) you can contact LabVIEW at ni.com and download 8.5. It will be good for 30 days... and you can contact a local NI rep to get an activation code for it for permanent use.
You can also then go to ni.com/first and take a look at the training that is there. This is the FIRST specific community that NI has set up.
There will be more and more information at this site as it is produced.
Right now there are links to some LabVIEW tutorials there that could help you get a feel for LV right now...
If you know any FTC teams, The FTC specific Labview program was released last week and they have it. We are trying to determine whether this could be released to FRC teams to play with. It is very easy to program a NXT robot using this FTC version. This would be time well spent.
You can also download an NXT toolkit that would enable you to program the Mindstorm NXT brick with LabVIEW. (This is what FTC uses as a controller).
This informationis available at
http://zone.ni.com/devzone/cda/tut/p/id/4435
I hope this will help you...
(and any others...)