Unknown Object Identifier - HOST MIBS

Everytime I tried accessing information in the HOST-RESOURCES-MIB, both 
locally and remote, I got a Unknown Object Identifier error.  For example, 
when I try to perform 

        snmpget -v 1 -c public localhost hrSystemDate  I would get an 
error
                Unknown Object Identifier (sub-id not found: (top) -> 
hrSystemDate

I've looked in the NET-SNMP User forum and tried the other suggestions 
like
        snmpget -v 1 -c public localhost HOST-RESOURCES-MIB:hrSystemDate
        snmpget -v 1 -c public localhost HOST-RESOURCES-MIB::hrSystemDate
        snmpget -m +HOST-RESOURCES-MIB -v 1 -c public localhost 
hrSystemDate
        snmpget -v 1 -c public localhost .1.3.6.1.2.1.25.3.1.2.0

All gave the same error.  I followed the instructions given in 
README.solaris (http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/docs/README.solaris.html) 
to add the net-snmp.reg and net-snmp.rsrc (page 12) under /etc/snmp/conf 
to run net-snmp together with the Sun's SNMP daemon.  I verified all the 
MIB files are installed under /usr/local/share/mibs.

System Specificiation:
        OS - Solaris SPARC 8
        net-snmp - 5.0.10.1  compile and install from the source code