Well, my purpose was to get an almost continuous reading of the temperatures to see if a problem I'm having lies in the thermocouple wires or a different component of my system. I found a better solution than the probe, though. I opened the DAQ Assistant and clicked the Run button, and the "Table" view provided a very convenient interface for me, updating at about 5-10Hz.
To clarify, I didn't create the VI, and this is my first time using the software. I spent about an hour and reverse engineered just about everything I needed to know, since the documentation is no help whatsoever. The programmer who set it up left no instructions, and I had to fix about half of his DAQ setup.