[kcyk8703]

I consider it good to know the stroke order, however the actual executions of writing it could be less important to me. So long as it looks like it should then its good.

If you got someone watching your shoulder for every kanji you write then sure its important. I would say 90% of the kanji's I write(know) are written in the correct order just by nature. The more difficult ones may be out of order but I have yet to be told to write it again.