You're going about it differently than I did (haven't gotten around to leiningen yet), but I found the top google results for linking emacs to clojure were woef

You're going about it differently than I did (haven't gotten around to leiningen yet), but I found the top google results for linking emacs to clojure were woefully out of date. I'm a newbie to both emacs and clojure, so I couldn't figure out what I needed to do to correct for the old info. I gave up on that route and installed elpa on emacs, which I then used to install slime, swank, and clojure. Works great!