So, thanks to the help of Comment, I was able to take the records I had stupidly made with repeating fields, and populated a new table by dividing out the repetitions as separate records. I am back to my original layout, where I am going to strip out the repeating fields and replace with a portal. Of course, I tested the portal before finalizing the layout. However, in the portal, it only shows the first record. So, for example, in the repeating fields, I have 4 repetitions. In the new table I created by copying & importing the records, I have 4 separate records, 1 per repetition. However, on the portal, it only shows the first of the four. I have the portal set up to be 20 lines, the relationship is the Record ID number of the original record with the repeating fields. I'm sure it's something easy, but can someone help me get the rest of the portal populated? Thanks!

Ha...never mind, I figured it out, and boy do I feel stupid. My fields were bigger in height than the portal line. Everything works fine now.