In case this ever gets googled ... I'm pretty sure this problem had to do with my environment. I removed $HOME/.cabal and $HOME/.ghc, and upgraded to the latest stable haskell platform. yesod 0.8 has installed fine. I'm not sure what the exact problem was however.
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