No worries.....I corrected a mistake in my post too regarding my last question.  It has been a long time since I used DD-WRT (and I haven't missed it one bit).

Part (maybe all) of your problem is that you are trying to use the same subnet on both devices.  Additionally, if they were both using the same IP address (.1) then you would have had a conflict.  I think would change the normal device to have a LAN IP of 192.168.2.1 and leave the repeater on 192.168.1.1.