I'm confused as to why you need CSS Control Adapters for the Repeater?!? The Css Control Adapters take the bloated markup .NET creates for its standard controls and cleans them up. With Repeaters, there is no output unless you define it. All you need to do is add CSS classes where you want them in your markup.
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