UI design problem - exclusive checkboxes


I have a UI design problem.

I have four checkboxes, each one is one function and whenever one is
selected, the other checkboxes should be invalid (unchecked).
You may say radio boxes are the best choice, but I must allow all
checkboxes unchecked, that's to say, the user can leave all checkboxes
unchecked.

I have two solutions:

1, Add another checkbox to control the state and change the four
checkboxes to radio boxes, that checkbox controls the enable/disable of
the radio boxes. However, such solution require the user two clicks to
select a function. Those functions are often used and I hope the user
can do one click to select.

2, Two clicks again but maybe better? Use a combo box instead of the
checkboxes and set the items as 'None', 'Function 1', 'Function 2', etc.

I now just use four checkboxes and the user can select/clear them freely,
but it's very ambiguous.

Which solution is better? Or do yo have another better solution?

PS: I'm learning UI design now. Where is the best place to discuss UI
topics? Web forum, newsgroup or maillist are OK.

Thanks in advance.

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