Try to add the mapper via SBT
or maven
configuration?
Anyway, Scala-2.9.1 and Lift 2.4-M4 are very-very out of date. Better use something like that for a good start: https://github.com/lift/lift_25_sbt/
It works out of the box, and you'll only have to add 1 line to add the mapper
support for it. (After that, all dependencies would be downloaded and added to the project automatically, by SBT
.)