Whats up? Glad you decided to post after being here a while. 8)

Dream recall is Very important, because what good is a lucid dream, if you don't remember most of your dreams, anyway, right? So I'd say you're definitely off to a good start. As far as how common it is: my impression is that good dream recall is relatively uncommon, at least in the western world. If it's not Extremely uncommon, I'd say it is at least a minority.

Edit: And don't worry about the editting. I edit my posts so many times, it's not even funny. lol.