I was able to run the upgrade just how you suggested but my problem is persisting. I am using a repeater field and inside it, all my sub fields work except for those where I am using the image field to return a url. This used to work prior to 5.5 but now they break the page. The page just stops rendering once it gets to the url of the image.
For example, when viewing source for my page, it ends at
<a href="#module-logos"><img src="
