Kipton got close with his higher-kinded solution. Unfortunately he tripped over what appears to be a bug in Scala The following works as expected with 2.9.1. RC1 and trunk.
(See also two related questions: Scala fails to infer the right type arguments and Type infered to Nothing in Scala).
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