Impossible as this was solved by downgrading both Pods and Repeater plugins. Kept downgrading them till it started working. PHP 7.4, Pods 2.7.31, and Repeater 1.2.1. Do get some WordPress errors like invalid arguments and such but, I am working through them one after the other. The original tables did have the necessary columns and not sure why would not find them. Thank you for responding.
Roland