Gantt 2.2.3 milestone issues

Is anyone using the Gantt Chart 2.2.3 visual? Is there a way to visualise both the task bars and the milestones together on the one line? I can only show one or the other. 

The downloadable sample shows a pic of the visual with the milestone along a parent task bar, but I dont want to use a parent and then when I add the milestone field it still removes the task bar of the task. 

Also, the milestone field is not recognising the data as a date, it places the milestone icon at the start date of the Task instead of when it actually is. Has anyone had these issues and solved them?