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So I think I spend too much time making sure I can get all 3 sets of 5 perfect before adding weight. But then again, if the form isn't correct.......
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I doubt your really spending too much time on that. It's a very smart thing to spend time on like the other's have said. Sometimes what it comes down to is taking a little more time for a long term benefit. Meanwhile you aren't losing much. It's not like you are back sliding.
On the other hand Hunter has a point. Like he said it's not like you're not pushing yourself but you can't always expect every rep to be perfect while strength training. But it becomes a question of whether the last one or two reps were so bad and perhaps cheated that they really should be repeated at the same weight or rather they were just really slow....
In the end maintaining proper form as you're progressing is going to pay off. And it sounds like to me that you already have a sense of what is going on and you are exercising judgement. BTW, if you have a session where you are dubious about form but don't feel it's something that should hold you back from loading the bar it can be beneficial to do some back off sets.
This would be something at perhaps around 65% of your working weight for that day that you did for set that left one or two in the tank. In other words, you do it only as much as you can maintain perfect form. What this does is to maintain proper motor pathways and just simply give you more "practice" doing it with a weight that will not introduce any appreciable extra fatigue. Practice does make perfect!