I'm very surprised to read this because I had the same issue working with ALM QC 11.52 patch 1.
After quite some weeks time investment to convince HP there was a misalignment in their patch 1 they finally delivered me a correct TDConnect.exe file without guarantee on the side of regression. I was able to use this successfully and our upgrade to QC planning got unblocked :-)
This clarifies my "Very surprised to read this..." sentence above - apparently you come to say the same mistake was made for patch 3.